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Bill	Courts; property, and wills, trusts, and administration of estates; neither superior court nor a state court shall have appellate jurisdiction pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 5; clarify	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 5, 15, 44, and 53 of the O.C.G.A., relating to appeal and error, courts, property, and wills, trusts, and administration of estates, respectively, so as to clarify that neither superior court nor a state court shall have appellate jurisdiction pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 5 over any nonappealable order of a probate court subject to such chapter; to provide for de novo proceeding with the right to a jury trial of certain probate court final judgments; 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	SB 450	Georgia SB 450 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Brian Strickland Harold Jones II John F. Kennedy Steve Gooch	5	16	3	2024-02-01	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/7e85697d-340c-4f51-b13d-8f1efdd6e2cc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cd1ecae7cd620ec5b99b0fce5f16cd35dcf4aa1869fb276c70f4a009535768ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 450 (2023_24) — Courts; property, and wills, trusts, and administration of estates; neither superior court nor a state court shall have appellate jurisdiction pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 5; clarify

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 5, 15, 44, and 53 of the O.C.G.A., relating to appeal and error, courts, property, and wills, trusts, and administration of estates, respectively, so as to clarify that neither superior court nor a state court shall have appellate jurisdiction pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 5 over any nonappealable order of a probate court subject to such chapter; to provide for de novo proceeding with the right to a jury trial of certain probate court final judgments; 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 49 1741 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 1767S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 56 0161S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 450/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #733 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #699 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 150–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #569 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-01 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-02-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-08 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-14 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-21 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Act 424 executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e85697d-340c-4f51-b13d-8f1efdd6e2cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).