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type: "Bill"
title: "Sheriff of Twiggs County; manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowance; change"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to abolish the present model of compensating the sheriff of Twiggs County, Georgia, known as the fee system, approved February 28, 1966 (Ga. L. 1966, p. 2546), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 31, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5140), an Act approved April 5, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4917), and an Act approved March 12, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 4041), so as to change the manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowance of the sheriff and employees of the sheriff'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 257"
citation: "Georgia SB 257 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Lucas"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-21"
last_action: "2019-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/127a9706-7bc0-4219-872d-c3c1fca9cd87"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f623d003e0240ac7060a87b99126e78f09a0796c3a0a4d64aaac6bea244baba0"
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 257 (2019_20) — Sheriff of Twiggs County; manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowance; change
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to abolish the present model of compensating the sheriff of Twiggs County, Georgia, known as the fee system, approved February 28, 1966 (Ga. L. 1966, p. 2546), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 31, 1992 (Ga. L. 1992, p. 5140), an Act approved April 5, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4917), and an Act approved March 12, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 4041), so as to change the manner of fixing salary adjustments or allowance of the sheriff and employees of the sheriff'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 0171** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185260.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186011.pdf)
3. **SB 257 ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185264.pdf)
4. **SB 257/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187596.pdf)
## Votes
- LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — **491** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David Lucas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-21** Senate Hopper
- **2019-03-22** 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 208 `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/127a9706-7bc0-4219-872d-c3c1fca9cd87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).