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Bill	Pooler, City of; Municipal Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Pooler, approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 3726), as amended, so as to authorize the assessment and collection of a technology fee by the Municipal Court of the City of Pooler; to identify the authorized uses of said technology fee; to provide for the deposit of fees; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 644	Georgia HB 644 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Hitchens Carl Gilliard Ron Stephens	3	13	1	2019-03-21	2019-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/7534461d-1073-448a-8dbe-b819cffd8a2e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a29446ddaa73f828bd655dd978cbfff4107ef8728ca5b521821349a98c08271e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 644 (2019_20) — Pooler, City of; Municipal Court; authorize assessment and collection of a technology fee

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to provide a new charter for the City of Pooler, approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 3726), as amended, so as to authorize the assessment and collection of a technology fee by the Municipal Court of the City of Pooler; to identify the authorized uses of said technology fee; to provide for the deposit of fees; 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 644/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 1193/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 156–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Carl Gilliard — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-03-21 House Hopper
• 2019-03-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-26 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-29 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 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 164 executive-signature
• 2019-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7534461d-1073-448a-8dbe-b819cffd8a2e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).