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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Support Recovery Act; federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; require the obligor to pay the full fee"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 11 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Child Support Recovery Act, so as to require the obligor to pay the full fee required by the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; 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 137"
citation: "Georgia SB 137 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Bill Cowsert", "Butch Miller", "Chuck Payne", "Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Frank Ginn", "Greg Kirk", "Jack Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers", "John Wilkinson", "Lee Anderson", "Lindsey Tippins", "Matt Brass", "Mike Dugan", "Renee Unterman", "Steve Gooch", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9389022e-37d3-4def-831d-3bce3e37dc96"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "b6fde05cde695728ed4292d80d09db25bbf52f052567be7d326f0d8db31fb54a"
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 137 (2017_18) — Child Support Recovery Act; federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; require the obligor to pay the full fee
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 11 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Child Support Recovery Act, so as to require the obligor to pay the full fee required by the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005; 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 — **530** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jack Hill — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-08** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-10** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 242 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9389022e-37d3-4def-831d-3bce3e37dc96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).