republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-888.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Upson County; Juvenile Court; transfer probation and intake services to the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice	A BILL to be entitled an Act to transfer probation and intake services of the Juvenile Court of Upson County to the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice pursuant to Code Section 15-11-69 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 888	Georgia HB 888 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Johnnie Caldwell, Jr.	2	13	1	2016-02-02	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8b5e5cb2-2353-4afe-8586-9d901ec4b488	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5c55139023cad5a8eaf33812989788541dc5823b3617a91b711c282ca0dc768f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 888 (2015_16) — Upson County; Juvenile Court; transfer probation and intake services to the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice

A BILL to be entitled an Act to transfer probation and intake services of the Juvenile Court of Upson County to the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice pursuant to Code Section 15-11-69 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated; 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 888/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 0040/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 146–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-02 House Hopper
• 2016-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 469 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b5e5cb2-2353-4afe-8586-9d901ec4b488. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).