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type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Commissioner of Twiggs County; authority to fix compensation of tax commissioner's office employees; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to abolish the present model of compensating the Tax Commissioner of Twiggs County, known as the fee system, approved February 18, 1977 (Ga. L. 1977, p. 2724), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 31, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5135), and an Act approved March 25, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4177), so as to change the manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowances of the tax commissioner and employees of the tax commissioner's office; to provide the tax commissioner with the authority to fix the compensation of employees of the tax commissioner's office; to provide an effective date; 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: "SB 254"
citation: "Georgia SB 254 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Lucas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-20"
last_action: "2019-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70c53658-70b1-4899-a25a-85ad543cc61c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "714573d2241e7c73c187628cb84155fe6095eb5bfb1bfaab0f9fd1810202eea4"
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 SB 254 (2019_20) — Tax Commissioner of Twiggs County; authority to fix compensation of tax commissioner's office employees; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to abolish the present model of compensating the Tax Commissioner of Twiggs County, known as the fee system, approved February 18, 1977 (Ga. L. 1977, p. 2724), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 31, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5135), and an Act approved March 25, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4177), so as to change the manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowances of the tax commissioner and employees of the tax commissioner's office; to provide the tax commissioner with the authority to fix the compensation of employees of the tax commissioner's office; to provide an effective date; 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. **As Introduced LC 47 0170** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185167.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186006.pdf)
3. **SB 254 ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185171.pdf)
4. **SB254/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187591.pdf)
## Votes
- LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — **491** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David Lucas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-20** Senate Hopper
- **2019-03-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Senate Transmitted House
- **2019-03-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-29** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-04-02** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 205 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70c53658-70b1-4899-a25a-85ad543cc61c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).