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| Bill | "Georgia Uniform Mediation Act"; enact | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, so as to provide for uniform laws governing mediation and participants in mediation; to provide for definitions; to provide for privileges against disclosure, admissibility, and discovery; to provide for waiver and preclusion of privilege; to provide for exceptions to privilege; to provide for confidentiality and mediator disclosure of conflicts; to provide for international commercial mediation and electronic signatures; to provide for uniformity of construction and severability; to provide for applicability; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2021_22 | SB 234 | Georgia SB 234 (2021_22) |
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4 | 17 | 1 | 2021-02-22 | 2021-07-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/9139107f-a75e-4d8e-990c-da5e36313a97 | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 900ec12354a4da034ad8d5048f6faf4d9f51f938262d05c416b8c21b401ee559 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia SB 234 (2021_22) — "Georgia Uniform Mediation Act"; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, so as to provide for uniform laws governing mediation and participants in mediation; to provide for definitions; to provide for privileges against disclosure, admissibility, and discovery; to provide for waiver and preclusion of privilege; to provide for exceptions to privilege; to provide for confidentiality and mediator disclosure of conflicts; to provide for international commercial mediation and electronic signatures; to provide for uniformity of construction and severability; to provide for applicability; to provide a short title; 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.
- As introduced LC 41 2788] (committee substitute) — source
- As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
- Committee sub LC 41 3029S (committee substitute) — source
- SB 234/AP* (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 49–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Harold Jones II — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — 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 - 2021-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-05 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2021-03-08 Senate Tabled
- 2021-03-08 Senate Taken from Table
- 2021-03-08 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2021-03-08 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2021-03-09 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2021-03-10 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2021-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-25 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2021-03-25 House Passed/Adopted
passage - 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2021-05-10 Senate Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2021-05-10 Act 268
executive-signature - 2021-07-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9139107f-a75e-4d8e-990c-da5e36313a97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).