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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Courts; distribution priority of partial payments of fines, bond forfeitures, and costs; provide"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts, so as to provide for the distribution priority of partial payments of fines, bond forfeitures, and costs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2019_20"
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identifier: "HB 576"
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citation: "Georgia HB 576 (2019_20)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Kasey Carpenter", "Kevin Tanner", "Martin Momtahan", "Rick Williams"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2019-03-05"
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last_action: "2020-08-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1525725-1c50-4405-a9d8-f4d3ef863b02"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "09e44cb43e7071d1f8d452287dcde3b2fe0e92411b12c4ee98337c2fec908c26"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 576 (2019_20) — Courts; distribution priority of partial payments of fines, bond forfeitures, and costs; provide
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts, so as to provide for the distribution priority of partial payments of fines, bond forfeitures, and costs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 576/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/195219.pdf)
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2. **LC 28 9302/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183829.pdf)
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3. **LC 28 9667S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192362.pdf)
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4. **LC 28 9667S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191470.pdf)
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5. **Sen ctee sub LC 39 2685S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193930.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **165–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Alan Powell — primary (person)
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- Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
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- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
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- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
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- Rick Williams — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-03-05** House Hopper
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- **2019-03-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2019-03-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-28** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-05** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2020-03-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-06-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2020-06-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2020-06-22** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2020-06-25** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
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- **2020-06-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-08-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-08-03** Act 553 `executive-signature`
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- **2020-08-03** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1525725-1c50-4405-a9d8-f4d3ef863b02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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