republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-520.md

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Bill	Domestic Relations; provisions relating to income withholding orders; change and clarify	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to change and clarify provisions relating to income withholding orders; to provide for definitions; to align state law terminology with that of federal law by replacing the term "income deduction order" with "income withholding order"; to provide for conforming changes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 520	Georgia SB 520 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Steve Gooch	3	15	2	2024-02-16	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1621ac97-4bf9-4c3e-b0df-526a0d497881	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	21b36300b851ea19fe043debebdb63b20adf92c259eee719672f556e741a45fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 520 (2023_24) — Domestic Relations; provisions relating to income withholding orders; change and clarify

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to change and clarify provisions relating to income withholding orders; to provide for definitions; to align state law terminology with that of federal law by replacing the term "income deduction order" with "income withholding order"; to provide for conforming changes; 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 57 0075 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 520/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #731 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 166–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #559 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-03 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Act 428 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1621ac97-4bf9-4c3e-b0df-526a0d497881. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).