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2025-2026 Regular Session

SB96

Official Code of Georgia Annotated; provisions creating certain boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies; update and modernize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various titles of the O.C.G.A., so as to modernize and update provisions creating certain boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition
Signed by Governor
Last status date
May 9, 2025
Last status update
Senate Date Signed by Governor
Author
Drew Echols
Co-sponsors
Bo HatchettChuck HufstetlerChuck PayneRandy RobertsonBen WatsonSam WatsonRuss GoodmanLarry WalkerShawn StillRicky WilliamsLee AndersonCarden SummersJohn AlbersSteve GoochBlake TilleryGreg DolezalFrank GinnBrian StricklandClint DixonKay KirkpatrickTimothy BeardenMatthew Gambill

Legislative progress

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House committee substitute March 18, 2025 Sent to Governor April 7, 2025 Governor approved May 9, 2025 Became law May 9, 2025
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Recorded floor votes

3 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.

February 20, 2025 · Senate

Passage: Senate Vote #69

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

35 yea–18 nay · 1 not voting · 2 absent

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March 21, 2025 · House

Passage: House Vote #295

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

162 yea–0 nay · 5 not voting · 13 absent

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March 27, 2025 · Senate

Agree To House Substitute: Senate Vote #309

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

51 yea–0 nay · 1 not voting · 4 absent

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Committee referrals

Instrument history

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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

  1. State Effective Date 2025-07-01
  2. State Act 92
  3. Senate Senate Date Signed by Governor
  4. Senate Senate Sent to Governor
  5. Senate Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
  6. House House Passed/Adopted By Substitute View roll call
  7. House House Third Readers
  8. House House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
  9. House House Second Readers
  10. House House First Readers
  11. Senate Senate Passed/Adopted View roll call
  12. Senate Senate Third Read
  13. Senate Senate Read Second Time
  14. Senate Senate Committee Favorably Reported
  15. Senate Senate Read and Referred
  16. Senate Senate Hopper
Source provenance
LegiScan bill ID
1955716
LegiScan session ID
2167
Source file
var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/SB96.json
Package observed
2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00