republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-169.md

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Bill	Bonds; acceptance of electronic signatures and electronic corporate seals on bonds; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding contracts for public works, Code Section 32-2-70 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to bonds of successful bidder, and Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 91 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to bonds generally, so as to provide for acceptance of electronic signatures and electronic corporate seals on bonds; 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	SB 169	Georgia SB 169 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Butch Miller Dean Burke Elena Parent Gloria Butler Harold Jones II Jeff Mullis John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Max Burns Mike Dugan Sonya Halpern Steve Gooch	3	15	1	2021-02-11	2021-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/625b05c9-df44-4613-aa9f-d7bd110713c0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	49671d515ad335b05f4ba25a424f6305455a3d8330f9e0c5f5702efd294a2c29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 169 (2021_22) — Bonds; acceptance of electronic signatures and electronic corporate seals on bonds; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding contracts for public works, Code Section 32-2-70 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to bonds of successful bidder, and Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 91 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to bonds generally, so as to provide for acceptance of electronic signatures and electronic corporate seals on bonds; 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. As introduced LC 44 1619 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 169/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-11 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 215 executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/625b05c9-df44-4613-aa9f-d7bd110713c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).