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type: "Bill"
title: "Public officers and employees; calculating and setting the salaries of certain state officials; revise provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-7-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to annual salaries of certain state officials and cost-of-living adjustments, so as to revise provisions relating to calculating and setting the salaries of Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Court of Appeals, the judge of the Georgia State-wide Business Court, and the judge of the Georgia State Tax Court; to provide for effective dates; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "HB 86"
citation: "Georgia HB 86 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "James Burchett", "Matt Reeves", "Rob Leverett", "Soo Hong", "Stan Gunter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6b4eb59-36e9-4cd2-91b2-c27aa9f9daa4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e9cf1dfa91946381aaa3cdabc292382e2ac4bf0e21752082ca899a5c03a82d46"
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 HB 86 (2025_26) — Public officers and employees; calculating and setting the salaries of certain state officials; revise provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-7-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to annual salaries of certain state officials and cost-of-living adjustments, so as to revise provisions relating to calculating and setting the salaries of Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Court of Appeals, the judge of the Georgia State-wide Business Court, and the judge of the Georgia State Tax Court; to provide for effective dates; 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 86/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238097.pdf)
2. **LC 47 3171/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230091.pdf)
3. **Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 33 2107** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/237498.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #295 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **23–31** (fail) · upper
- Senate Vote #335 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- Senate Vote #296 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **45–10** (pass) · upper
- Senate Vote #294 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **30–23** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #52 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **167–6** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- James Burchett — primary (person)
- Matt Reeves — primary (person)
- Rob Leverett — primary (person)
- Soo Hong — primary (person)
- Stan Gunter — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-16** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2025-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2025-01-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2025-03-28** House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2025-03-28** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-28** Senate Receded from Amend or Sub
- **2025-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-12** Act 113 `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6b4eb59-36e9-4cd2-91b2-c27aa9f9daa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).