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type: "Bill"
title: "Fulton County; Magistrate Court; provide court administrator be chief magistrate or his or her designee; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the administration of the budget of the Magistrate Court of Fulton County; to provide that the court administrator shall be the chief magistrate or his or her designee; to provide that such court administrator shall have oversight of the budget; to provide that such court administrator is authorized to make changes to line item appropriations; to provide that any unexpended funds at the end of the fiscal year shall lapse to the general fund of Fulton County; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 655"
citation: "Georgia HB 655 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jan Jones", "Joe Wilkinson", "Matt Dollar", "Mike Dudgeon", "Mike Jacobs", "Wendell Willard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-24"
last_action: "2015-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d06910b5-5a0a-4db5-b8a2-9a02035b7899"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3eb0a3b50e3f5ba7c2221c1f416e4d2fd66ac825f41250bb75c3845bf9ff9628"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 655 (2015_16) — Fulton County; Magistrate Court; provide court administrator be chief magistrate or his or her designee; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the administration of the budget of the Magistrate Court of Fulton County; to provide that the court administrator shall be the chief magistrate or his or her designee; to provide that such court administrator shall have oversight of the budget; to provide that such court administrator is authorized to make changes to line item appropriations; to provide that any unexpended funds at the end of the fiscal year shall lapse to the general fund of Fulton County; 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. **HB 655/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153487.pdf)
2. **LC 43 0145/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152145.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **13121** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Matt Dollar — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
- Mike Jacobs — primary (person)
- Wendell Willard — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-03-24** House Hopper
- **2015-03-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Act 284 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d06910b5-5a0a-4db5-b8a2-9a02035b7899`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).