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type: "Bill"
title: "Accounting for Public Funds; provide multibank pooling of depositories for acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to accounting for public funds, so as to provide for multibank pooling of depositories for the acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies; to provide for definitions, procedures, conditions, and limitations on the establishment of such pools; to provide for multiple effective dates; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 283"
citation: "Georgia SB 283 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Ed Harbison", "Jesse Stone", "John Kennedy", "Michael 'Doc' Rhett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-21"
last_action: "2016-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ad976cb-90bc-41fd-8227-1819a7949e17"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "39d2d6ce929c8946f81d0c415871d8acf0252cf1885c405f892d2a565cde7c7a"
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 SB 283 (2015_16) — Accounting for Public Funds; provide multibank pooling of depositories for acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to accounting for public funds, so as to provide for multibank pooling of depositories for the acceptance of deposits of public funds from public bodies; to provide for definitions, procedures, conditions, and limitations on the establishment of such pools; to provide for multiple effective dates; 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 introduced LC 39 1141ER** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155212.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156752.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 39 1192ERS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156293.pdf)
4. **Floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156723.pdf)
5. **SB 283/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159708.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **513** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Ed Harbison — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-01-21** Senate Hopper
- **2016-01-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-04** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-02-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-02-08** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-03-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-29** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 373 `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ad976cb-90bc-41fd-8227-1819a7949e17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).