republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-709.md

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Bill	Waycross Judicial Circuit; Superior Court judges; increase salary supplement	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that the governing authority of each county comprising the Waycross Judicial Circuit may supplement the compensation, salary, expenses, and allowances of each of the judges of the superior courts of the Waycross Judicial Circuit, approved March 20, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 3879), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 8, 2018 (Ga. L. 2018, p. 3975), so as to increase the amounts of such supplements; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 709	Georgia HB 709 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Clay Pirkle Dominic LaRiccia James Burchett John Corbett Steven Meeks Steven Sainz	3	13	1	2021-03-03	2021-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/f03f00d4-c348-4824-9849-57d95505448a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	92d8af967b291f109dd2c427fb9814960858ae43f029590993da0861167a0475	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 709 (2021_22) — Waycross Judicial Circuit; Superior Court judges; increase salary supplement

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act providing that the governing authority of each county comprising the Waycross Judicial Circuit may supplement the compensation, salary, expenses, and allowances of each of the judges of the superior courts of the Waycross Judicial Circuit, approved March 20, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 3879), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 8, 2018 (Ga. L. 2018, p. 3975), so as to increase the amounts of such supplements; to provide for related matters; 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. HB 709/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 0771/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ads (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 108–56 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
• Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
• James Burchett — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)
• Steven Meeks — primary (person)
• Steven Sainz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-03 House Hopper
• 2021-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-03-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-03-29 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-03 Act 77 executive-signature
• 2021-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f03f00d4-c348-4824-9849-57d95505448a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).