republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-32.md

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Bill	Public Disclosure; certain personal records of state and federal employees; exempt	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 50-18-72 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to when public disclosure not required, so as to exempt certain personal records of state and federal employees from public disclosure; 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	SB 32	Georgia SB 32 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Carden Summers Dean Burke Frank Ginn John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Matt Brass Max Burns Randy Robertson Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	5	16	1	2021-01-27	2021-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/e7262ce9-5463-4b9a-8a5d-b8a3a5dce487	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fff4059e4d597832939a94ce2b71d4ee125d8a440ea6c1227f2c5a1c563d1cc1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 32 (2021_22) — Public Disclosure; certain personal records of state and federal employees; exempt

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 50-18-72 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to when public disclosure not required, so as to exempt certain personal records of state and federal employees from public disclosure; 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. As introduced LC 36 4492 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 4581S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 4783S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 32/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-27 Senate Hopper
• 2021-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-02-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-02-11 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-02-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-23 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-06 Act 247 executive-signature
• 2021-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7262ce9-5463-4b9a-8a5d-b8a3a5dce487. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).