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type: "Bill"
title: "Ware County; superior court clerk shall also be state court clerk; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the State Court of Ware County, formerly the City Court of Waycross, approved December 11, 1897 (Ga. L. 1897, p. 510), as amended, particularly by an Act approved July 30, 1903 (Ga. L. 1903, p. 171), so as to provide that the clerk of the superior court of Ware County shall also be the clerk of the state court of Ware County; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 640"
citation: "Georgia HB 640 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Burchett", "John Corbett", "Steven Sainz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-18"
last_action: "2020-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad310ec9-449a-44f3-b30d-dce112d7601a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "863448f2d5c759c00f5bff38b523f13ee30a317791df1ec31b102fa403a4bacb"
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 640 (2019_20) — Ware County; superior court clerk shall also be state court clerk; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the State Court of Ware County, formerly the City Court of Waycross, approved December 11, 1897 (Ga. L. 1897, p. 510), as amended, particularly by an Act approved July 30, 1903 (Ga. L. 1903, p. 171), so as to provide that the clerk of the superior court of Ware County shall also be the clerk of the state court of Ware County; to provide for related matters; to provide 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.
1. **HB 640/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187047.pdf)
2. **LC 44 1222/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184902.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184917.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **156–2** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- James Burchett — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Steven Sainz — 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`
- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 162 `executive-signature`
- **2020-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad310ec9-449a-44f3-b30d-dce112d7601a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).