The Georgia State University Electronic Court Filing Project was created as a pilot project under the State of Georgia's Electronic Records and Signatures Act (1997).

This page details the history of the Georgia Act.

Senate Bill 62 (1999), introduced and sponsored by Senators Lamutt of the 21st, Polak of the 42nd, Johnson of the 1st and others and co-authored by Winchel 'Todd' Vincent, Georgia State and Richard Keck and Charles M. Pellissier, Troutman Sanders, LLP, was the third and most major revision to the Act.

In 1995 and 1996, the Digital Signature Task Force considered, but rejected, a Utah-style "Digital Signature" statute .

In 1995, a task force headed by David Rabin from Morris, Manning and Martin, LLP, Atlanta, and sponsored by Georgia Senator James Tysinger (41st), began drafting Georgia's proposed Digital Signature Act.

The Georgia Legislature enacted the original Act on April 22nd, 1997.

Mike Hale, Sr., Georgia's Chief Information Officer in 1997, suggested creating pilot projects to explore the use of electronic and digital signature technologies in government applications.