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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Whitfield County Community Improvement Districts Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the creation of one or more community improvement districts in Whitfield County; to provide for construction; to provide that Chapter 5 of Title 10 of the O.C.G.A. shall not apply to the offer, sale, or issuance of the boards' bonds, notes, or other obligations; to provide that no notice, proceeding, publication, or referendum shall be required; to provide for dissolutions; to provide the procedures connected with all of the foregoing; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 573"
+citation: "Georgia HB 573 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bruce Broadrick", "Jay Neal", "Tom Dickson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-03-11"
+last_action: "2013-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5aaa3e5f-ba08-4072-bcf3-89cfe86505c6"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e5853e49b2542a558dd365628ec2906eb008323ff175739d2c32cf338eb27606"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 573 (2013_14) — Whitfield County Community Improvement Districts Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the creation of one or more community improvement districts in Whitfield County; to provide for construction; to provide that Chapter 5 of Title 10 of the O.C.G.A. shall not apply to the offer, sale, or issuance of the boards' bonds, notes, or other obligations; to provide that no notice, proceeding, publication, or referendum shall be required; to provide for dissolutions; to provide the procedures connected with all of the foregoing; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 573/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135565.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 3822/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134113.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **151–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
+- Jay Neal — primary (person)
+- Tom Dickson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-03-11** House Hopper
+- **2013-03-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2013-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2013-03-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2013-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2013-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2013-05-06** Act 138 `executive-signature`
+- **2013-05-06** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5aaa3e5f-ba08-4072-bcf3-89cfe86505c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+