republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-199.md

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Bill	Courts; protection of personally identifiable information of judges and their spouses; modify provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 15 the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to administration of courts of record generally, so as to modify provisions related to protection of personally identifiable information of judges and their spouses; to abolish the requirement for the Administrative Office of the Courts to maintain a data base of protected persons and information; to provide for a state-wide form to be used by protected persons seeking to have information removed or redacted from public records; to require state and local governments to remove personally identifiable information from public records when requested by a protected person; to provide procedures for such requests; to revise definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 199	Georgia HB 199 (2025_26)	bill	COURTS	enacted	Joseph Gullett Matt Reeves Sam Park Stan Gunter Trey Kelley Tyler Paul Smith	5	16	3	2025-01-30	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/41d01935-accf-49b9-bf2d-e1e8ea378803	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	93507abd90cd752484d9980b676e4f00d68268ace2f34c507114da9574e74682	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 199 (2025_26) — Courts; protection of personally identifiable information of judges and their spouses; modify provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 15 the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to administration of courts of record generally, so as to modify provisions related to protection of personally identifiable information of judges and their spouses; to abolish the requirement for the Administrative Office of the Courts to maintain a data base of protected persons and information; to provide for a state-wide form to be used by protected persons seeking to have information removed or redacted from public records; to require state and local governments to remove personally identifiable information from public records when requested by a protected person; to provide procedures for such requests; to revise definitions; 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. HB 199/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3282/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 48 1439S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 48 1439S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Ctee Sub LC 49 2339S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #29 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 165–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #346 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 54–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #358 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joseph Gullett — primary (person)
• Matt Reeves — primary (person)
• Sam Park — primary (person)
• Stan Gunter — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)
• Tyler Paul Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-12 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 308 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41d01935-accf-49b9-bf2d-e1e8ea378803. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).