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type: "Bill"
title: "Trusts; establish qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 53 of the O.C.G.A., relating to trusts, so as to establish qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions for spendthrift provisions of trusts which are not within qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts; to provide for claims by creditors for such trusts; to provide for the creation of such trusts; to provide for transfers to such trusts; to provide for vacancies of trustees; to provide for standards for such trusts to be considered nonrevocable; to provide for beneficiary rights to withdrawal; to provide for claims for relief; to amend Part 4 of Article 9 of Title 11 of the O.C.G.A., relating to rights of third parties to secured transactions, so as to exclude qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts from restrictions on assignment; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 441"
citation: "Georgia HB 441 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Fleming", "Beth Beskin", "Christian Coomer", "Greg Morris"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f6cc942-bfef-413a-a521-8e85f8b7ef8b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "002a89e97b68978ce36382d40374d2e3f4d98955b4ecb457bc97625efb40aacb"
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 441 (2017_18) — Trusts; establish qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 53 of the O.C.G.A., relating to trusts, so as to establish qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions for spendthrift provisions of trusts which are not within qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts; to provide for claims by creditors for such trusts; to provide for the creation of such trusts; to provide for transfers to such trusts; to provide for vacancies of trustees; to provide for standards for such trusts to be considered nonrevocable; to provide for beneficiary rights to withdrawal; to provide for claims for relief; to amend Part 4 of Article 9 of Title 11 of the O.C.G.A., relating to rights of third parties to secured transactions, so as to exclude qualified self-settled spendthrift trusts from restrictions on assignment; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **12537** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
- Beth Beskin — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Greg Morris — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-21** House Hopper
- **2017-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-06** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-12** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-12** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-21** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Veto V3 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f6cc942-bfef-413a-a521-8e85f8b7ef8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).