republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-158.md

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Bill	Courts; change name of Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit to DeKalb Judicial Circuit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to change the name of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit to the DeKalb Judicial Circuit; 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	2023_24	HB 158	Georgia HB 158 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Billy Mitchell Karen Bennett Omari Crawford Saira Draper Shea Roberts	4	17	2	2023-01-31	2025-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/253c4ac5-40a7-402b-85b9-ac7d19f73321	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1f8fbe11534a150a48af89d28fa2a1fb60a77ed71bd631201ea99b6ff9a81263	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 158 (2023_24) — Courts; change name of Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit to DeKalb Judicial Circuit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to change the name of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit to the DeKalb Judicial Circuit; 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. HB 158/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 48 1111S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 48 1111S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 1190/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #800 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 51–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #436 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 156–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Mitchell — primary (person)
• Karen Bennett — primary (person)
• Omari Crawford — primary (person)
• Saira Draper — primary (person)
• Shea Roberts — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-31 House Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-02-02 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-01-31 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-21 Senate Tabled
• 2024-03-26 Senate Taken from Table
• 2024-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 585 executive-signature
• 2025-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/253c4ac5-40a7-402b-85b9-ac7d19f73321. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).