republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-73.md

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Bill	Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; fees collected in criminal and quasi-criminal cases prior to adjudication of guilt; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-18-80 and Article 4 of Chapter 17 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to policy and procedure relative to pretrial intervention and diversion programs and revenues collected from fines and fees relative to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund, respectively, so as to provide that payments to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund from fees collected in criminal and quasi-criminal cases prior to adjudication of guilt shall be deducted and remitted by the clerk of court directly to the secretary-treasurer of such fund; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 73	Georgia SB 73 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Chuck Payne Jeff Mullis John Albers Lee Anderson Matt Brass Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	15	1	2019-02-07	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/459185ae-48f0-4113-916a-e96d63f4e2ad	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cea0b6191b3b27ca72f6f618fad255e8fd43c2d0c9cd776bd8364ed7a042994b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 73 (2019_20) — Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund; fees collected in criminal and quasi-criminal cases prior to adjudication of guilt; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-18-80 and Article 4 of Chapter 17 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to policy and procedure relative to pretrial intervention and diversion programs and revenues collected from fines and fees relative to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund, respectively, so as to provide that payments to the Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund from fees collected in criminal and quasi-criminal cases prior to adjudication of guilt shall be deducted and remitted by the clerk of court directly to the secretary-treasurer of such fund; 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 43 1164 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB73 Auditors Certification (committee substitute) — source
4. SB73/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-07 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-14 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 257 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/459185ae-48f0-4113-916a-e96d63f4e2ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).