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type: "Bill"
title: "Code Revision Commission; statutory portion of said Code; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact the statutory portion of said Code, as amended, in furtherance of the work of the Code Revision Commission; to repeal portions of said Code, or Acts in amendment thereof, which have become obsolete, have been declared to be unconstitutional, or have been preempted or superseded by subsequent laws; to codify principles of law derived from decisions of the state Supreme Court; to provide for other matters relating to revision, reenactment, and publication of said Code; to provide for effect in event of conflicts; 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: "SB 429"
citation: "Georgia SB 429 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Cowsert", "Jesse Stone", "Randy Robertson", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4689a00-39c8-4c9a-a4be-170560a3a626"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6ddbba00ffdb1aab14a8c0777dc5ffc64d6ef1242830739c063eb14b463b57d4"
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 429 (2019_20) — Code Revision Commission; statutory portion of said Code; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact the statutory portion of said Code, as amended, in furtherance of the work of the Code Revision Commission; to repeal portions of said Code, or Acts in amendment thereof, which have become obsolete, have been declared to be unconstitutional, or have been preempted or superseded by subsequent laws; to codify principles of law derived from decisions of the state Supreme Court; to provide for other matters relating to revision, reenactment, and publication of said Code; to provide for effect in event of conflicts; 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. **As introduced LC 33 8062** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190730.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192121.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 33 8312S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191268.pdf)
4. **SB429/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194659.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **540** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-24** Senate Hopper
- **2020-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-28** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2020-03-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-06-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-06-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-25** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Act 521 `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4689a00-39c8-4c9a-a4be-170560a3a626`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).