republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-798.md

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Bill	Spalding County; State Court; modernize, update, and readopt provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the State Court of Spalding County, formerly known as the City Court of Griffin, approved December 14, 1897 (Ga. L. 1897, p. 462), as amended, so as to modernize, update, and readopt provisions governing such court and its judges, clerk, solicitor-general, and other personnel; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal specific Acts; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 798	Georgia HB 798 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Beth Camp Karen Mathiak	3	13	2	2025-03-18	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/aec6aad4-76e4-4039-a66a-5f28bef4c494	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fb58ec58f666404930c5b9499897279cd659ff5a8ce932665ca9ddafd4831cc1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 798 (2025_26) — Spalding County; State Court; modernize, update, and readopt provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act establishing the State Court of Spalding County, formerly known as the City Court of Griffin, approved December 14, 1897 (Ga. L. 1897, p. 462), as amended, so as to modernize, update, and readopt provisions governing such court and its judges, clerk, solicitor-general, and other personnel; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal specific Acts; 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 798/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3517/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #339 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #317 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Camp — primary (person)
• Karen Mathiak — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-18 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-03-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-27 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-27 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 233 executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aec6aad4-76e4-4039-a66a-5f28bef4c494. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).