republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-221.md

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Bill	Ethics in Government; leadership committees; chairpersons; such committees may receive contributions and make expenditures; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ethics in government, so as to provide for a definition; to provide for leadership committees; to provide for chairpersons; to provide that such committees may receive contributions and make expenditures; to provide for disposition of assets in certain circumstances; to provide for filings and reports; to provide an exception from contribution limits; to provide for certain notices; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 221	Georgia SB 221 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Butch Miller Dean Burke Jeff Mullis John Kennedy Larry Walker, III Mike Dugan Steve Gooch	4	15	1	2021-02-22	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9ec8bc34-7adf-4703-b0b5-eab4d6432514	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3e9b08d5cc5424cd4890612cda4faf825106e272f3fcb50794b6a92e5689b7fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 221 (2021_22) — Ethics in Government; leadership committees; chairpersons; such committees may receive contributions and make expenditures; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ethics in government, so as to provide for a definition; to provide for leadership committees; to provide for chairpersons; to provide that such committees may receive contributions and make expenditures; to provide for disposition of assets in certain circumstances; to provide for filings and reports; to provide an exception from contribution limits; to provide for certain notices; 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 28 0192 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 221/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #1 BY THE SENATOR FROM THE 21ST — 5–43 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-22 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 219 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ec8bc34-7adf-4703-b0b5-eab4d6432514. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).