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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Compact for a Balanced Budget; adopt"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state government, so as to adopt the Compact for a Balanced Budget and promote the proposal and ratification of a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution; to provide for powers, duties, and procedures relative to the Compact; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 794"
+citation: "Georgia HB 794 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Bruce Williamson", "Edward Lindsey", "Josh Clark", "Lee Hawkins", "Paulette Braddock"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-01-22"
+last_action: "2014-04-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a581915e-4cea-451d-b91d-1515eb385cf9"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "6d1c5b678dc0b1928a90ab7353a4904d83dce54e9563557a085231bf2294d59a"
+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 794 (2013_14) — Compact for a Balanced Budget; adopt
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state government, so as to adopt the Compact for a Balanced Budget and promote the proposal and ratification of a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution; to provide for powers, duties, and procedures relative to the Compact; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 794/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144709.pdf)
+2. **LC 40 0485/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137875.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **103–63** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
+- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
+- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
+- Josh Clark — primary (person)
+- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
+- Paulette Braddock — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-01-22** House Hopper
+- **2014-01-23** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-01-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-20** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-02-21** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-06** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-13** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-27** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-12** Act 475 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-12** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a581915e-4cea-451d-b91d-1515eb385cf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+