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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Crimes and offenses; filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; change provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to change provisions relating to filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; to expand the protection against the filing of false liens to all citizens; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 985"
+citation: "Georgia HB 985 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bruce Williamson", "Edward Lindsey", "Josh Clark", "Mary Oliver", "Sam Teasley", "Tom Kirby"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-02-10"
+last_action: "2014-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c96ffda-ff27-462a-bcba-0cb626e7f88f"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "ed2603075f695cf1cb76612c914f3beb919ad0d546e987680e0f12dd48046596"
+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 985 (2013_14) — Crimes and offenses; filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; change provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to change provisions relating to filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; to expand the protection against the filing of false liens to all citizens; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; 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 985/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143098.pdf)
+2. **LC 29 5894/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139568.pdf)
+3. **LC 29 5980S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141491.pdf)
+4. **LC 29 5980S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141320.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **161–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
+- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
+- Josh Clark — primary (person)
+- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
+- Sam Teasley — primary (person)
+- Tom Kirby — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-02-10** House Hopper
+- **2014-02-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-02-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-25** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-02-26** 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`
+- **2014-03-10** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-10** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-25** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-24** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-24** Act 626 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c96ffda-ff27-462a-bcba-0cb626e7f88f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+