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type: "Bill"
title: "Butts County; courthouse; provide that fees collected are for maintenance"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that certain costs in certain criminal cases and quasi-criminal cases shall be used for the purpose of maintaining the Butts County courthouse, approved April 15, 1969 (Ga. L. 1969, p. 2664), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 20, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 4056), so as to provide that fees collected are for the maintenance of the Historic Butts County Courthouse; to repeal provisions relating to the Superior Court of Butts County; to increase the fee the Probate Court of Butts County shall charge; to increase the amount of such fees that can be held before excess is paid into the Butts County general fund; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 631"
citation: "Georgia HB 631 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Susan Holmes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-18"
last_action: "2019-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bf2e68a-ed51-4378-98fe-14ccc9067ae4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "c4381d0ae574214f106f2d8ce9f8fba69323dd741c9126a10589af70a2861178"
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 631 (2019_20) — Butts County; courthouse; provide that fees collected are for maintenance
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that certain costs in certain criminal cases and quasi-criminal cases shall be used for the purpose of maintaining the Butts County courthouse, approved April 15, 1969 (Ga. L. 1969, p. 2664), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 20, 1990 (Ga. L. 1990, p. 4056), so as to provide that fees collected are for the maintenance of the Historic Butts County Courthouse; to repeal provisions relating to the Superior Court of Butts County; to increase the fee the Probate Court of Butts County shall charge; to increase the amount of such fees that can be held before excess is paid into the Butts County general fund; 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.
1. **HB 631/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187045.pdf)
2. **LC 47 0150/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184851.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184997.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **156–2** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Susan Holmes — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-18** House Hopper
- **2019-03-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-25** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2019-03-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 158 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bf2e68a-ed51-4378-98fe-14ccc9067ae4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).