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type: "Bill"
title: "Disaster Volunteer Relief Act; certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; authorize"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Disaster Volunteer Relief Act, so as to authorize certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 487"
citation: "Georgia HB 487 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Belton", "Heath Clark", "Josh Bonner", "Marc Morris", "Philip Singleton", "Randy Nix"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48ef305d-6323-4263-9bee-002b22eadde0"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5d97316a43650f358bf599ff8270b39a8d0cafbe118ed0a178c82e766d92f7ff"
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 487 (2019_20) — Disaster Volunteer Relief Act; certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; authorize
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Disaster Volunteer Relief Act, so as to authorize certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services; 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 487/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194586.pdf)
2. **LC 41 1931S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190635.pdf)
3. **LC 41 1931S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183702.pdf)
4. **LC 44 1015/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182852.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1570** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- Heath Clark — primary (person)
- Josh Bonner — primary (person)
- Marc Morris — primary (person)
- Philip Singleton — primary (person)
- Randy Nix — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-26** House Hopper
- **2019-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-02-21** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-06-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-08-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-08-05** Act 575 `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48ef305d-6323-4263-9bee-002b22eadde0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).