republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-255.md

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Bill	General Assembly; authorization of statutory investigatory powers to certain committees of the General Assembly; codify a process	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 28 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding the General Assembly, so as to codify a process for the authorization of statutory investigatory powers to certain committees of the General Assembly; to provide for oaths and subpoena powers related to such investigatory powers; to provide for confidentiality of certain materials; to explicitly preserve any authority, immunity, privilege, or power granted to or possessed by the General Assembly or its members; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 255	Georgia SB 255 (2025_26)	bill	GENERAL ASSEMBLY	enacted	Bill Cowsert	4	16	3	2025-02-25	2025-05-14	openstates	ocd-bill/13a3b1b6-6a74-4ceb-8632-52643d10566a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fa12c9546870293b85b1a001c2336db8796f46aa1a16440119cc8a84b7b2f721	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 255 (2025_26) — General Assembly; authorization of statutory investigatory powers to certain committees of the General Assembly; codify a process

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 28 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding the General Assembly, so as to codify a process for the authorization of statutory investigatory powers to certain committees of the General Assembly; to provide for oaths and subpoena powers related to such investigatory powers; to provide for confidentiality of certain materials; to explicitly preserve any authority, immunity, privilege, or power granted to or possessed by the General Assembly or its members; 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. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 47 3461 (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 47 3681S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 255/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #183 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 33–23 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #451 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–22 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #402 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 91–67 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-25 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 314 executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/13a3b1b6-6a74-4ceb-8632-52643d10566a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).