republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-337.md

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Bill	Public Officers; suspension of compensation because of indictment for a felony; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to vacation of office, so as to provide for the suspension of compensation for certain public officers who are suspended because of indictment for a felony; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 337	Georgia SB 337 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Dean Burke Jason Anavitarte John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Max Burns Mike Dugan Steve Gooch	4	16	1	2022-01-14	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/acfc72f3-0899-4151-a448-d0e6ddc25048	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4e8efe586630790e1b1b4755e25c9a7a8ce6ed6a678488008999c5731a3e9e17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 337 (2021_22) — Public Officers; suspension of compensation because of indictment for a felony; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to vacation of office, so as to provide for the suspension of compensation for certain public officers who are suspended because of indictment for a felony; 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 0365 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 47 1817S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 337/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 45–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-14 Senate Hopper
• 2022-01-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-04-01 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-13 Act 869 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/acfc72f3-0899-4151-a448-d0e6ddc25048. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).