--- title: SB 623. State Court of Clayton County; compensation of the solicitor-general of the state court; revise provisions collection: bills id: 2025-2026/sb623 cite_as: SB 623, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb623 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb623.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb623/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/74111 date: 2026-05-12 status: passed corpus_version: bills-2026-09-13 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. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb622.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb624.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md omitted: votes and history omitted_chars: 1089 omitted_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb623.md?full=1 bill_number: SB 623 session: 2025-2026 Regular Session session_slug: 2025-2026 chamber: Senate bill_type: bill status_date: 2026-05-12 last_action: Act 705 sponsors: - Kenya Wicks - Elena Parent - Gail Davenport - Yasmin Neal text_version: Enrolled has_text: true legiscan_url: https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/SB623/2025 upstream_id: 2134531 summaries_model: claude-sonnet-5 topic_tags: - Clayton County government - solicitor-general salary - state court funding - county audits --- # SB 623. State Court of Clayton County; compensation of the solicitor-general of the state court; revise provisions ## Text Senate Bill 623 By: Senators Wicks of the 34th, Parent of the 44th and Davenport of the 17th AS PASSED A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend an Act creating the State Court of Clayton County, approved January 28, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964, p. 2032), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 18, 2022 (Ga. L. 2022, p. 5510), so as to revise provisions related to the compensation of the solicitor-general of the state court; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1. An Act creating the State Court of Clayton County, approved January 28, 1964 (Ga. L. 1964, p. 2032), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 18, 2022 (Ga. L. 2022, p. 5510), is amended by revising Section 6 as follows: "SECTION 6. Salary of the solicitor-general. (a) The solicitor-general of the State Court of Clayton County shall receive a salary equal to 95 percent of the total compensation of the Chief Judge of the State Court of Clayton County, to include any supplement received pursuant to state law or county ordinance to be paid in biweekly installments from the funds of Clayton County. (b) In no event shall the solicitor-general's total salary as provided for in subsection (a) of this section exceed the greater of $191,007.00 or 95 percent of the total compensation of the Chief Judge of the State Court of Clayton County." SECTION 2. This Act shall become effective on the first day of the month following the month in which the solicitor-general of the State Court of Clayton County fully complies with the county-wide audits of Clayton County for years 2024 , 2025, and 2026 required pursuant to subsection (c.1) of Code Section 36-81-7. SECTION 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed. ## 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. A Senate bill would set new rules for how much the solicitor-general of the State Court of Clayton County gets paid, tying the salary to the chief judge's pay and requiring the office to fully cooperate with county audits before the law takes effect. ### Plain-language summary This bill amends the 1964 law that created the State Court of Clayton County, focusing on how the court's solicitor-general (the county's chief prosecutor for that court) is paid. Under the bill, the solicitor-general's salary would equal 95 percent of the total compensation paid to the Chief Judge of the State Court of Clayton County, including any state or county pay supplements, paid every two weeks from county funds. The bill also caps that salary so it never exceeds the greater of $191,007 or 95 percent of the chief judge's total pay. Rather than taking effect right away, the law only kicks in once the solicitor-general fully complies with Clayton County's required county-wide audits (under O.C.G.A. § 36-81-7) for 2024, 2025, and 2026. Conflicting laws are repealed. ### What it does - Sets the solicitor-general of the State Court of Clayton County's salary at 95 percent of the Chief Judge's total compensation, including supplements, paid biweekly from county funds. - Caps the solicitor-general's salary at whichever is greater: $191,007 or 95 percent of the Chief Judge's total compensation. - Delays the law's effective date until the solicitor-general fully complies with Clayton County's required county-wide audits for 2024, 2025, and 2026. - Repeals any prior laws that conflict with these new salary and compliance provisions. ### Who it affects The solicitor-general of the State Court of Clayton County, the Chief Judge of that court (whose pay sets the benchmark), Clayton County government which pays the salary from county funds, and county auditors overseeing the required county-wide audits. ### Why it matters The bill ties the solicitor-general's pay directly to the chief judge's compensation and caps it at a set dollar level, changing how that salary is calculated. It also uses the audit-compliance condition as leverage, meaning the pay change will not take effect until required financial audits are completed. ### Key provisions - Section 1 revises Section 6 of the 1964 Act creating the State Court of Clayton County to set the solicitor-general's salary at 95 percent of the Chief Judge's total compensation, including supplements, paid biweekly. - Section 1 also caps the solicitor-general's total salary at the greater of $191,007 or 95 percent of the Chief Judge's total compensation. - Section 2 sets the effective date as the first day of the month after the solicitor-general fully complies with Clayton County's audits for 2024, 2025, and 2026 required under O.C.G.A. § 36-81-7(c.1). - Section 3 repeals any conflicting laws. ## Status - Status: Passed (2026-05-12) - Last action: Act 705 (2026-05-12) - Sponsors: Kenya Wicks, Elena Parent, Gail Davenport, Yasmin Neal - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/74111 > The history, votes, and amendments (1,089 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb623.md?full=1