republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-88.md

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Bill	Douglas Judicial Circuit; a fourth judge of the superior courts; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for a fourth judge of the superior courts of the Douglas Judicial Circuit; to provide for the appointment of such additional judge by the Governor; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 88	Georgia SB 88 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Donzella James Timothy Bearden	4	15	2	2025-02-04	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/18bad483-de63-4c30-a68e-464cd035bbfb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	de9f2eb4b1ec415c6828075a6cca4d00546ac755d2572e69485fcc0ebf7ce65c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 88 (2025_26) — Douglas Judicial Circuit; a fourth judge of the superior courts; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for a fourth judge of the superior courts of the Douglas Judicial Circuit; to provide for the appointment of such additional judge by the Governor; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 47 3276 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 62 0106S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 88/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #281 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 171–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #108 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-30 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-30 Act 25 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18bad483-de63-4c30-a68e-464cd035bbfb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).