Courts; protection of personally identifiable information of judges and their spouses; modify provisions
Summary
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.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Jan 30, 2025
Signed May 14, 2025
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MINOR
The bill was amended to expand the definition of protected information to include property and tax records, and to update the list of government offices subject to restrictions, specifically changing 'court clerk's office' to 'court clerk's office' and adding 'board of tax assessors' to the list of entities.
DEFINITION
The definition of 'Personally identifiable information' was expanded to include property or tax records in addition to phone numbers and addresses.
REQUIREMENT
The list of local government entities required to restrict personally identifiable information was updated to include 'court clerk's office' and 'board of tax assessors'.
Floor votes · Senate Mar 31, 2025 · House Feb 12, 2025
How they voted
53–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 55
Mar 31, 2025
D
Democratic22
100% Yea
R
Republican33
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
6
Committee
3
Amendments
1
May 14, 2025
Signed into law
Act 308
upper
May 14, 2025
Signed into law
House Date Signed by Governor
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Introduced
House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute
upper
Mar 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
upper
Feb 13, 2025
Committee
Senate Read and Referred
upper
Feb 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
lower
Jan 30, 2025
Introduced
House Hopper
lower
6 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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