republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-808.md

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Bill	Courts; Judicial Qualifications Commission; create	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to courts, so as to create a new Judicial Qualifications Commission; to provide for the powers, composition, and appointment of such commission; to amend Code Section 50-14-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certain proceedings exempted from open meetings requirements, so as to remove any exemptions for meetings of the Judicial Qualifications Commission; to provide effective dates; to provide for contingent automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 808	Georgia HB 808 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Jan Jones John Meadows Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. Jon Burns Mary Oliver Wendell Willard	9	17	1	2016-01-22	2017-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5cea0fac-02a7-45b9-874e-3719bc927d09	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f6cebbe8586628296b6664c8d80679103e36e8398b9744b911a2098edf3ce0a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 808 (2015_16) — Courts; Judicial Qualifications Commission; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to courts, so as to create a new Judicial Qualifications Commission; to provide for the powers, composition, and appointment of such commission; to amend Code Section 50-14-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to certain proceedings exempted from open meetings requirements, so as to remove any exemptions for meetings of the Judicial Qualifications Commission; to provide effective dates; to provide for contingent automatic repeal; 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. Floor Amendment AM 29 2567 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 808/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 25 6560/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6943S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 6943S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. SCSFA to HB808 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor AM 1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen ctee sub LC 28 8079S (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 123–45 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-22 House Hopper
• 2016-01-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2016-03-25 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 605 executive-signature
• 2017-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5cea0fac-02a7-45b9-874e-3719bc927d09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).