republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-222.md

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Bill	Primaries and Elections; all costs and expenses relating to election administration are paid for with lawfully appropriate public funds; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A, relating to primaries and elections generally, so as to provide that all costs and expenses relating to election administration are paid for with lawfully appropriate public funds; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 222	Georgia SB 222 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Frank Ginn Jason Anavitarte John Albers Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Max Burns Randy Robertson Rick Williams Sam Watson Shawn Still Steve Gooch	9	23	7	2023-02-21	2023-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/e7b2e9ce-5797-453f-9d7b-f8dda573d4c7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f63c17e8fdbd0c9cbab3cb333f4fb33bd1aeec4787e5ee80c5f49927f925a612	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 222 (2023_24) — Primaries and Elections; all costs and expenses relating to election administration are paid for with lawfully appropriate public funds; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A, relating to primaries and elections generally, so as to provide that all costs and expenses relating to election administration are paid for with lawfully appropriate public funds; to provide for related matters; to provide 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. Amend 1 AM 47 0073 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amend 2 AM 47 0072 (committee substitute) — source
3. As introduced LC 47 2226 (committee substitute) — source
4. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. Committee sub LC 47 2324S (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 47 2465S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 47 2506S/hss (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 47 2532S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
9. SB 222/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #354 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 32–21 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #129 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 33–23 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #333 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 100–70 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #332 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 67–101 (fail) · lower
• Senate Vote #114 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 32–19 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #334 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 100–69 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #128 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 34–20 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-21 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-03-02 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2023-03-02 Senate Tabled
• 2023-03-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2023-03-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-03-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-20 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2023-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-27 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2023-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-27 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2023-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-03 Act 273 executive-signature
• 2023-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7b2e9ce-5797-453f-9d7b-f8dda573d4c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).