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title: HB 1429. Courts; juvenile court clerks collect and submit data regarding monetary sanctions assessed for juvenile offenders to the Administrative Office of the Courts; require
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date: 2026-03-03
status: introduced
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bill_number: HB 1429
session: 2025-2026 Regular Session
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chamber: House
bill_type: bill
status_date: 2026-02-24
last_action: House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
sponsors:
- Bethany Ballard
- Beth Camp
- Rick Townsend
- Carmen Rice
- Esther Panitch
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- juvenile justice
- court fines and fees
- data reporting
- school safety
- court transparency
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# HB 1429. Courts; juvenile court clerks collect and submit data regarding monetary sanctions assessed for juvenile offenders to the Administrative Office of the Courts; require
## Text
The House Committee on Judiciary, Juvenile offers the following substitute to HB 1429:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend Code Section 15-11-64 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
collection of information by juvenile court clerks, reporting requirement, and data collection,
so as to require that juvenile court clerks collect and submit data regarding monetary
sanctions assessed for juvenile offenders to the Administrative Office of the Courts; to
provide for reporting requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws;
and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Code Section 15-11-64 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to collection of
information by juvenile court clerks, reporting requirement, and data collection, is amended
by adding new subsections to read as follows:
"(e) Each clerk of the juvenile court shall collect the following information for each child
in need of services, delinquent child, and child accused of a misdemeanor or felony offense
and shall provide to the Administrative Office of the Courts in a form and format specified
by the Administrative Office of the Courts and incorporated into the Georgia Juvenile Data
Exchange or any such successor database maintained by the Administrative Office of the
Courts such information:
(1) Sex;
(2) Age;
(3) Race;
(4) Offense charged;
(5) Location of the offense, including whether the offense occurred in a school safety
zone, as such term is defined in Code Section 16-11-127.1;
(6) The name of the referral source, including the name of the school district if the
referring source was a school;
(7) Disposition of the case, including any monetary sanctions which may include, but are
not limited to, fines, fees, court costs, and restitution;
(8) Sentence imposed, including the type and amount of monetary sanctions such as
fines, court costs, and restitution;
(9) Court of jurisdiction; and
(10) The collection status of any monetary sanctions.
(f) All such data elements shall be submitted through a regular scheduled data upload into
the Georgia Juvenile Data Exchange at the maximum frequency allowed by local case
management system parameters; provided, however, that such upload shall occur no less
than once per week. The Administrative Office of the Courts shall compile all data
collected pursuant to subsection (e) of this Code section by April 15, 2027, and annually
thereafter. The compiled data report shall be made publicly available and incorporated into
the Georgia Juvenile Data Exchange."
SECTION 2.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
## Summaries written by Georgia Commons
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A House bill would require Georgia's juvenile court clerks to track and report data on fines, fees, and other monetary sanctions imposed on juvenile offenders, feeding it into a statewide database.
### Plain-language summary
Georgia law already requires juvenile court clerks to collect certain case information, but it does not currently require detailed tracking of monetary sanctions imposed on young people in the juvenile justice system. This bill amends O.C.G.A. § 15-11-64 to require clerks to collect and report additional data for every child accused of a delinquent act, a misdemeanor, or a felony, or found in need of services.
The new data includes the child's sex, age, race, offense charged, whether the offense happened in a school safety zone, the referral source, the case disposition, and details about any fines, fees, court costs, or restitution imposed and their collection status. Clerks must upload this data into the Georgia Juvenile Data Exchange at least once a week. The Administrative Office of the Courts must compile the data into a public report by April 15, 2027, and every year after that.
### What it does
- Requires juvenile court clerks to collect ten specific data points, including sex, age, race, offense, and school safety zone location, for each juvenile case.
- Requires clerks to report the type and amount of monetary sanctions imposed, such as fines, court costs, and restitution, plus their collection status.
- Requires weekly data uploads into the Georgia Juvenile Data Exchange, the state's juvenile case database.
- Requires the Administrative Office of the Courts to compile the data into a public report by April 15, 2027, and annually after that.
### Who it affects
Juvenile court clerks statewide, who must collect and submit the new data; the Administrative Office of the Courts, which must build and publish the compiled reports; and juvenile offenders and their families, whose case and financial penalty information will be tracked in the state database.
### Why it matters
The bill would create a public, statewide record of how often and how much Georgia juvenile courts impose fines, fees, and restitution on children, including whether those sanctions are actually collected. This could reveal patterns in how monetary penalties are used across the juvenile justice system.
### Key provisions
- Section 1 adds subsection (e) to O.C.G.A. § 15-11-64, listing ten data points juvenile court clerks must collect for each case, including offense location and school safety zone status (O.C.G.A. § 16-11-127.1).
- Section 1 also requires clerks to report the disposition of each case, including monetary sanctions such as fines, fees, court costs, and restitution, and the sentence imposed.
- New subsection (f) requires data uploads into the Georgia Juvenile Data Exchange at least once per week.
- Subsection (f) requires the Administrative Office of the Courts to compile and publicly release the data annually starting April 15, 2027.
- Section 2 repeals any conflicting laws.
## Status
- Status: Introduced (2026-02-24)
- Last action: House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute (2026-03-03)
- Sponsors: Bethany Ballard, Beth Camp, Rick Townsend, Carmen Rice, Esther Panitch
- Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/73532
> The history, votes, and amendments (199 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1429.md?full=1