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type: "Bill"
title: "Civil Practice; statutory civil case filing and disposition forms; allow Judicial Council of Georgia to promulgate forms; child custody proceedings; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, so as to remove the statutory civil case filing and disposition forms and allow the Judicial Council of Georgia to promulgate such forms; to repeal and revise provisions requiring such forms be transmitted; to amend Title 9, Title 15, and Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, courts, and general provisions for child custody proceedings, respectively, so as to provide for conforming cross-references; to require annual reporting of certain information; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 132"
citation: "Georgia SB 132 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Dean Burke", "Elena Parent", "Ellis Black", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "Jesse Stone", "Matt Brass", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2018-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0643abd7-9c71-4fc0-9ef4-c33461e2d6b1"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "00cce336babfd00cdf529c82a87b8eedb0bb18544048e2af379cc4dfc13dfbae"
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 132 (2017_18) — Civil Practice; statutory civil case filing and disposition forms; allow Judicial Council of Georgia to promulgate forms; child custody proceedings; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, so as to remove the statutory civil case filing and disposition forms and allow the Judicial Council of Georgia to promulgate such forms; to repeal and revise provisions requiring such forms be transmitted; to amend Title 9, Title 15, and Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to civil practice, courts, and general provisions for child custody proceedings, respectively, so as to provide for conforming cross-references; to require annual reporting of certain information; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **481** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-07** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-16** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-30** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-06** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 240 `executive-signature`
- **2018-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0643abd7-9c71-4fc0-9ef4-c33461e2d6b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).