republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-624.md

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Bill	South Georgia Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior court of the South Georgia Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 624	Georgia HB 624 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Darlene Taylor Gerald Greene Joe Campbell Winfred Dukes	5	17	1	2021-02-24	2022-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/0c7c57d8-9568-4b70-b807-b1b9cc0bed8b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e1ba1886672851b61b79bfc74672e98e447db067927635d5b221c179f60b7952	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 624 (2021_22) — South Georgia Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 15-6-2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the number of judges of superior courts, so as to provide for an additional judge of the superior court of the South Georgia Judicial Circuit; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; 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 624/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 41 2970/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 44 1848S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 1848S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 47 0930S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 169–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Joe Campbell — primary (person)
• Winfred Dukes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-24 House Hopper
• 2021-02-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2022-01-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-02-01 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-02-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-30 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-30 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Act 746 executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c7c57d8-9568-4b70-b807-b1b9cc0bed8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).