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type: "Bill"
title: "Waycross Judicial Circuit; Superior Court judges; increase salary supplement"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 709"
citation: "Georgia HB 709 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Pirkle", "Dominic LaRiccia", "James Burchett", "John Corbett", "Steven Meeks", "Steven Sainz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-03"
last_action: "2021-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f03f00d4-c348-4824-9849-57d95505448a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "92d8af967b291f109dd2c427fb9814960858ae43f029590993da0861167a0475"
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 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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202410.pdf)
2. **LC 47 0771/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199411.pdf)
3. **Local Ads** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199457.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f03f00d4-c348-4824-9849-57d95505448a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).