republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-635.md

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Bill	Courts; each judge of the superior court, state court, and probate court and each magistrate shall have authority to perform any lawful judicial act; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to courts, so as to provide that each judge of the superior court, state court, and probate court and each magistrate shall have authority to perform any lawful judicial act regardless of where he or she is physically located at the time of such act; to amend Title 17 of the O.C.G.A., relating to criminal procedure, so as to provide for the issuance of arrest warrants by a judge regardless of where such judge is physically located; to revise standards for holding a court of inquiry; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to revise when superior courts are authorized to use alternative locations; to provide for criteria; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 635	Georgia HB 635 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Chuck Efstration Mike Wilensky Rob Leverett	5	16	1	2021-02-24	2021-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/7fb1ae65-cfac-4586-9675-10387ae45f88	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cee923ba3313969ff318c27b25df962d6631bd65bbea4ba0335911c27bc9ba13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 635 (2021_22) — Courts; each judge of the superior court, state court, and probate court and each magistrate shall have authority to perform any lawful judicial act; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to courts, so as to provide that each judge of the superior court, state court, and probate court and each magistrate shall have authority to perform any lawful judicial act regardless of where he or she is physically located at the time of such act; to amend Title 17 of the O.C.G.A., relating to criminal procedure, so as to provide for the issuance of arrest warrants by a judge regardless of where such judge is physically located; to revise standards for holding a court of inquiry; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to revise when superior courts are authorized to use alternative locations; to provide for criteria; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 635/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 41 3010/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 3027S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 3027S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 41 3147S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
• Mike Wilensky — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-24 House Hopper
• 2021-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 202 executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7fb1ae65-cfac-4586-9675-10387ae45f88. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).