republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-605.md

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Bill	Employment Security; certain nonprofit organizations have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 8 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to contributions and payments in lieu of contributions relative to employment security, so as to provide for certain nonprofit organizations to have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; to provide for automatic repeal; 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 605	Georgia SB 605 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Dean Burke	4	15	1	2022-03-04	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e654d6d0-55ce-4fee-bcaa-5b434b83347e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a228219ea0637fdcf6e126cd3bc7efa3251da6df5d10e419cf15ec61960092e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 605 (2021_22) — Employment Security; certain nonprofit organizations have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 8 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to contributions and payments in lieu of contributions relative to employment security, so as to provide for certain nonprofit organizations to have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; to provide for automatic repeal; 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 5172 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 5252S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 605/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dean Burke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-04 Senate Hopper
• 2022-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-04-01 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-09 Act 852 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e654d6d0-55ce-4fee-bcaa-5b434b83347e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).