--- title: HB 747. Cobb County; State Court; change compensation of judges collection: bills id: 2025-2026/hb747 cite_as: HB 747, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb747 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb747.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb747/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/71272 date: 2025-05-13 status: passed corpus_version: bills-2026-08-28 license: Public record of the Georgia General Assembly, via LegiScan; see about.md publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. 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Cobb County; State Court; change compensation of judges ## Text 25 LC 47 3506/AP House Bill 747 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE) By: Representatives Cummings of the 39th, Parsons of the 44th, Wilkerson of the 38th, Carson of the 46th, Campbell of the 35th, and others A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend an Act creating the State Court of Cobb County, approved March 26, 1964 (Ga.1 L. 1964, p. 3211), as amended, so as to change the compensation of judges of the State Court2 of Cobb County; to provide for related matters; to repeal confl icting laws; and for other3 purposes.4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:5 SECTION 1.6 An Act creating the State Court of Cobb County, approved March 26, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964, p.7 3211), as amended, is amended in Section 3 of Part 1 by replacing:8 "The chief judge of the State Court of Cobb County shall receive as additional9 compensation $10,892.55 per annum."10 with:11 "The chief judge of the State Court of Cobb County shall receive as additional12 compensation $11,328.25 per annum."13 SECTION 2.14 Said Act is further amended in Section 23 of Part 1 by replacing:15 H. B. 747 - 1 - 25 LC 47 3506/AP "The salary of the judges of Division 1 of the State Court of Co bb County shall16 be $208,782.88 per annum."17 with:18 "The salary of the judges of Division 1 of the State Court of Co bb County shall19 be $217,134.20 per annum."20 SECTION 3.21 All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.22 H. B. 747 - 2 - ## Summaries written by Georgia Commons The following was written by claude-sonnet-5 from the text above and is not part of the bill. Quote the text, not the summary. House Bill 747 raises the pay of the chief judge and Division 1 judges of the State Court of Cobb County, adjusting compensation figures set in the court's original 1964 charter. ### Plain-language summary The State Court of Cobb County was created by a 1964 Georgia law that has been amended over the years, including to set judicial pay. This bill updates two of those pay figures. First, it raises the additional compensation paid to the chief judge of the State Court of Cobb County from $10,892.55 per year to $11,328.25 per year. Second, it raises the salary of the judges of Division 1 of the State Court of Cobb County from $208,782.88 per year to $217,134.20 per year. The bill repeals any conflicting laws. It does not change any other part of the court's structure, jurisdiction, or duties, only these two compensation amounts. ### What it does - Raises the chief judge of the State Court of Cobb County's additional annual compensation from $10,892.55 to $11,328.25. - Raises the annual salary for Division 1 judges of the State Court of Cobb County from $208,782.88 to $217,134.20. - Repeals any existing laws that conflict with these new compensation figures. ### Who it affects This bill directly affects the chief judge and the Division 1 judges of the State Court of Cobb County, whose pay changes, and indirectly touches Cobb County's court administration and budget for judicial salaries. ### Why it matters The pay raises mean the affected Cobb County judges will earn more per year, which could affect the county's budget for court salaries. The change is narrow and applies only to this specific court's leadership pay, not to judges statewide. ### Key provisions - Section 1 amends Section 3 of Part 1 of the 1964 Act to raise the chief judge's additional compensation to $11,328.25 per year. - Section 2 amends Section 23 of Part 1 to raise Division 1 judges' salary to $217,134.20 per year. - Section 3 repeals any conflicting laws, a standard clause ensuring the new figures take precedence. ## Status - Status: Passed (2025-05-13) - Last action: Effective Date 2025-05-13 (2025-05-13) - Sponsors: Terry Cummings, Don Parsons, David Wilkerson, John Carson, Lisa Campbell, Solomon Adesanya - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/71272 > The history, votes, and amendments (884 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb747.md?full=1