republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-446.md

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Bill	Cash Bonds; unclaimed cash bonds; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-6-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the authorization of posting cash bonds generally, furnishing of receipt to person posting bond, recordation of receipt of bond on docket, and disposal of unclaimed bonds, so as to provide for unclaimed cash bonds; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 446	Georgia SB 446 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Chuck Hufstetler Frank Ginn John Kennedy John Wilkinson Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Lindsey Tippins Matt Brass Randy Robertson Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	19	1	2020-02-26	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/25a83f74-7101-47ee-a182-535ff6746abd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c034ead814c276c1af4ff2ccb9c496d251b5b8dd4244d52f95b9066a70fcb4c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 446 (2019_20) — Cash Bonds; unclaimed cash bonds; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-6-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the authorization of posting cash bonds generally, furnishing of receipt to person posting bond, recordation of receipt of bond on docket, and disposal of unclaimed bonds, so as to provide for unclaimed cash bonds; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As introduced LC 48 0183 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 2610S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 446/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE THE RULES CALENDAR — 49–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-02-26 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Senate Tabled
• 2020-03-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2020-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-06-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-22 House Postponed
• 2020-06-23 House Postponed
• 2020-06-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-29 Act 520 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25a83f74-7101-47ee-a182-535ff6746abd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).