republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-12.md

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Bill	Inspection of Public Records; documents and records in the possession of private persons or entities; revise provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to inspection of public records, so as to revise provisions related to documents and records in the possession of private persons or entities; to revise definitions; to revise provisions related to judicial enforcement of inspection requests; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 12	Georgia SB 12 (2025_26)	bill	STATE GOVERNMENT	enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brandon Beach Carden Summers Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Emanuel Jones Frank Ginn John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Kenya Wicks Matt Brass Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Sam Watson Shawn Still Steve Gooch	5	17	3	2025-01-15	2025-05-14	openstates	ocd-bill/fc37583c-a845-419b-ad3b-4f4246f95f18	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	29386125011f5854f3d280940efed0d54ccec335d19fa7f145dc0e5768f1d33b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 12 (2025_26) — Inspection of Public Records; documents and records in the possession of private persons or entities; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to inspection of public records, so as to revise provisions related to documents and records in the possession of private persons or entities; to revise definitions; to revise provisions related to judicial enforcement of inspection requests; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 47 3168 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 2218S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 47 3644S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 12/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #490 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #432 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #80 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kenya Wicks — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-15 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-21 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2025-04-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 276 executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc37583c-a845-419b-ad3b-4f4246f95f18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).