republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-189.md

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Bill	Elections; text portions of ballots shall be counted for vote tabulation and recounts purposes; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to primaries and elections generally, so as to provide that the text portions of ballots produced by ballot marking devices shall be counted for vote tabulation and recounts purposes instead of any machine coding; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 189	Georgia SB 189 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Colton Moore Ed Setzler Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal Jason Anavitarte John Albers John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Marty Harbin Matt Brass Max Burns Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman Sam Watson Steve Gooch	6	20	5	2023-02-15	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/17e2e409-4d7b-4ffc-bc20-a425ba262631	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	991887a97a9b2d8f2a49be613b1ed9bd3287f588eddd5f482fd864487a069c7e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 189 (2023_24) — Elections; text portions of ballots shall be counted for vote tabulation and recounts purposes; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to primaries and elections generally, so as to provide that the text portions of ballots produced by ballot marking devices shall be counted for vote tabulation and recounts purposes instead of any machine coding; to provide for related matters; 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 47 2048 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 47 2770S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 47 3089S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 47 3110S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 189/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #894 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 33–22 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #472 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 31–22 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #467 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 30–23 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #866 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 101–73 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #893 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 33–22 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Colton Moore — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-06 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2024-02-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2024-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 697 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17e2e409-4d7b-4ffc-bc20-a425ba262631. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).