Plain English Breakdown
The official text confirms the bill amends Title 15 regarding magistrate courts and corrects an error in Ga. L. 2025, p. 780.
HB999: Changes to Magistrate Court Fees and Election Rules
This law updates rules for fees collected by magistrate courts, corrects a writing error in an earlier act about nonpartisan elections of magistrates related to probate court judges, states legislative intent, and repeals conflicting laws.
What This Bill Does
- Revises provisions regarding sums and fees that magistrate courts are authorized to collect under state law.
- Corrects a scrivener's error in an automatic repealer found in a previous act concerning the nonpartisan election of probate court judges.
- States the legislative intent for these changes.
- Repeals laws that conflict with this new legislation.
Who It Names or Affects
- Magistrate courts
- Probate court judges regarding their election rules
Terms To Know
- Scrivener's error
- A mistake made while writing or copying a legal document.
- Nonpartisan election
- An election where candidates do not run under the label of a political party.
Limits and Unknowns
- The official summary does not list specific dollar amounts for any fees.
- The text mentions correcting an error but does not describe exactly what the original mistake was.
- The new effective date or details of the corrected automatic repealer are not specified in this excerpt.