republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-98.md

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Bill	Guardian and Ward; county conservators; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 29 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to guardian and ward, so as to provide for county conservators generally; to provide for respective rights and responsibilities of county conservators and county guardians; to provide that county administrators shall serve as ex officio county conservators; to make conforming changes; to revise and provide for definitions; to provide for the change of designation of county guardian to county conservator by operation of law under certain circumstances and subject to an exception; 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	2025_26	SB 98	Georgia SB 98 (2025_26)	bill	GUARDIAN AND WARD	enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Brian Strickland Frank Ginn Kay Kirkpatrick	4	15	2	2025-02-05	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/60d6f4d7-f4e8-4663-9543-953f5056f7e5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d2669a76f6b2d13af0daf147399b19fb7967c53764cc94ab89d53a8eb080c9df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 98 (2025_26) — Guardian and Ward; county conservators; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 29 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to guardian and ward, so as to provide for county conservators generally; to provide for respective rights and responsibilities of county conservators and county guardians; to provide that county administrators shall serve as ex officio county conservators; to make conforming changes; to revise and provide for definitions; to provide for the change of designation of county guardian to county conservator by operation of law under certain circumstances and subject to an exception; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 49 2134 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 57 0226S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 98/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #70 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #298 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 162–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-06 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
• 2025-02-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 283 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60d6f4d7-f4e8-4663-9543-953f5056f7e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).