republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-56.md

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Bill	Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit; superior court; provide additional judge	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior courts of the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 56	Georgia HB 56 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Brad Thomas John Carson Mandi Ballinger Wes Cantrell	6	21	1	2020-12-23	2022-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/08fb5dd6-d484-4a71-bfa7-884da79396b9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f6a78278c1b9a2e943a8bafc87343c00bbd2ddda64b47d8666a06f035f8fd6a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 56 (2021_22) — Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit; superior court; provide additional judge

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior courts of the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; 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. HB 56/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 41 2694/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 2694/pf (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 2805S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 41 2805S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 44 1993S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 148–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brad Thomas — primary (person)
• John Carson — primary (person)
• Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
• Wes Cantrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-23 House Prefiled introduction
• 2021-01-11 House Hopper
• 2021-01-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-01-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-01-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2022-01-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-02-08 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-04-01 Senate Tabled
• 2022-04-01 Senate Taken from Table
• 2022-04-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-04-01 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Act 736 executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08fb5dd6-d484-4a71-bfa7-884da79396b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).