republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-328.md

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Bill	State Court of Henry County; additional judge; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a State Court of Henry County, approved March 27, 1998 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 3954), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 13, 2008 (Ga. L. 2008, p. 4090), so as to provide an additional judge for the State Court of Henry County; to provide for the appointment of the initial additional judge; to provide for the election of successors; to provide for terms of office of said additional judge and successors to such judge; to provide for the compensation and expenses of said additional judge; to provide for a chief judge; to provide for a salary supplement for the chief judge; to provide for the appointment of a judge pro hac vice; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 328	Georgia SB 328 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Emanuel Jones Gail Davenport Rick Williams	4	13	2	2025-03-10	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b732ff65-9f63-46eb-8950-a06afb56ddbd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	19de048055846c7f145b38c7c44711fdb824d100e7cbacd74cd70a04d80d2d13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 328 (2025_26) — State Court of Henry County; additional judge; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a State Court of Henry County, approved March 27, 1998 (Ga. L. 1998, p. 3954), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 13, 2008 (Ga. L. 2008, p. 4090), so as to provide an additional judge for the State Court of Henry County; to provide for the appointment of the initial additional judge; to provide for the election of successors; to provide for terms of office of said additional judge and successors to such judge; to provide for the compensation and expenses of said additional judge; to provide for a chief judge; to provide for a salary supplement for the chief judge; to provide for the appointment of a judge pro hac vice; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 62 0105 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 328 Local Ad (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 328/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #265 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #377 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
• Gail Davenport — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-10 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-04-02 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-02 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 247 executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b732ff65-9f63-46eb-8950-a06afb56ddbd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).