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type: "Bill"
title: "Employment Security; certain nonprofit organizations have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 8 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to contributions and payments in lieu of contributions relative to employment security, so as to provide for certain nonprofit organizations to have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; to provide for automatic repeal; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "SB 605"
citation: "Georgia SB 605 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean Burke"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-03-04"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e654d6d0-55ce-4fee-bcaa-5b434b83347e"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "a228219ea0637fdcf6e126cd3bc7efa3251da6df5d10e419cf15ec61960092e0"
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 605 (2021_22) — Employment Security; certain nonprofit organizations have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 8 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to contributions and payments in lieu of contributions relative to employment security, so as to provide for certain nonprofit organizations to have the option of making installment payments to finance unemployment benefits paid to its employees for certain time periods during the COVID-19 public health emergency; to provide for automatic repeal; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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 36 5172** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/208370.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/209298.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 36 5252S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/208602.pdf)
4. **SB 605/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/211838.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **52–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-03-04** Senate Hopper
- **2022-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-15** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2022-03-15** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2022-03-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2022-03-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2022-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2022-04-01** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-09** Act 852 `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e654d6d0-55ce-4fee-bcaa-5b434b83347e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).