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type: "Bill"
title: "Courts and Revenue and Taxation; cost-of-living and general performance based increases; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 15 and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to revise the cost-of-living and general performance based increases to take into account the increases provided for in 2020; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "Georgia SB 295 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Cowsert", "Jeff Mullis", "John Wilkinson", "Larry Walker, III", "Randy Robertson", "Steve Gooch"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8d2f893-4d6d-4d34-905c-f8331881e6f5"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "73ffcf15901aa54f6cf7a0508a1e948f6b7a9b12cdc116d121302a15ca6f8114"
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 295 (2019_20) — Courts and Revenue and Taxation; cost-of-living and general performance based increases; revise
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 15 and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to courts and revenue and taxation, respectively, so as to revise the cost-of-living and general performance based increases to take into account the increases provided for in 2020; to provide for 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. **As introduced LC 45 0336** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187903.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189804.pdf)
3. **LC 45 0439S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192328.pdf)
4. **SB 295/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194674.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **501** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-14** Senate Hopper
- **2020-01-15** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-30** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-02-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-02-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-17** House Postponed
- **2020-06-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-06-18** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2020-06-24** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2020-06-29** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Act 543 `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8d2f893-4d6d-4d34-905c-f8331881e6f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).