republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-212.md

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Bill	Probate Court Judges; relating to elections; end activities and duties	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to probate courts, and Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elections, respectively, so as to end activities and duties of probate court judges relating to elections; to provide for related matters; to provide effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 212	Georgia SB 212 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Carden Summers Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Max Burns Shawn Still Steve Gooch	5	18	4	2023-02-16	2024-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/2682d0ac-7c50-41c4-b6de-d1035c012243	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a5d960f8c268624ad321c01092bdc028eb42b6132192a9d0c07a88462768225d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 212 (2023_24) — Probate Court Judges; relating to elections; end activities and duties

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to probate courts, and Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elections, respectively, so as to end activities and duties of probate court judges relating to elections; to provide for related matters; to provide effective dates; 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 44 2193 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 47 2771S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 47 3067S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 212/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #764 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 162–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #509 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 35–12 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #796 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 35–18 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #508 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 29–19 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-16 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2024-02-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-16 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-08 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 House Postponed
• 2024-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-26 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 580 executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2682d0ac-7c50-41c4-b6de-d1035c012243. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).