republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-424.md

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Bill	West Georgia Judicial Circuit; create	A BILL to be entitled an Act to create a new judicial circuit for the State of Georgia to be known as the West Georgia Judicial Circuit and to be composed of Carroll County and Heard County; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to revise the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the Coweta Judicial Circuit; to provide for the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the West Georgia Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 424	Georgia SB 424 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Matt Brass Randy Robertson	3	15	2	2024-01-29	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/16791ef2-c15e-4bd9-83a2-ef7bb313d1c7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	99b9d2312d39c2d69afb6a75aa65fa220b36be146ca678ac50a2011003102136	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 424 (2023_24) — West Georgia Judicial Circuit; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create a new judicial circuit for the State of Georgia to be known as the West Georgia Judicial Circuit and to be composed of Carroll County and Heard County; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 6 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions regarding superior courts, so as to revise the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the Coweta Judicial Circuit; to provide for the composition, terms of court, and number of judges of the West Georgia Judicial Circuit; 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 49 1716 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 424/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #725 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 175–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #493 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 47–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-30 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-08 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-20 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 615 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16791ef2-c15e-4bd9-83a2-ef7bb313d1c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).