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+type: "Bill"
+title: "City of Vidalia Convention and Visitor's Bureau Authority; create"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Vidalia Convention and Visitor's Bureau Authority as a public body corporate and politic, a political subdivision of the state, and a public corporation, to have the responsibility and authority to promote tourism, trade, and conventions in the City of Vidalia, Georgia; to provide for creation and organization of the authority; to provide for a purpose; to provide for powers, duties, and authority; to provide for a board of directors, membership, terms of office, and removal from office; to provide for an executive director and his or her duties and powers; to provide for meetings; to limit liability; to provide for a budget and finances; to provide for oversight; to provide that the city not be bound; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 1127"
+citation: "Georgia HB 1127 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Morris"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-03-07"
+last_action: "2016-05-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6aa49125-fe8d-409a-aa0e-ab7947cb9127"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "68f2a4993130994674a6a264f9f2dff1a828bc110488881b18da7b8ce97bf330"
+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 1127 (2015_16) — City of Vidalia Convention and Visitor's Bureau Authority; create
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Vidalia Convention and Visitor's Bureau Authority as a public body corporate and politic, a political subdivision of the state, and a public corporation, to have the responsibility and authority to promote tourism, trade, and conventions in the City of Vidalia, Georgia; to provide for creation and organization of the authority; to provide for a purpose; to provide for powers, duties, and authority; to provide for a board of directors, membership, terms of office, and removal from office; to provide for an executive director and his or her duties and powers; to provide for meetings; to limit liability; to provide for a budget and finances; to provide for oversight; to provide that the city not be bound; 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 1127/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/161115.pdf)
+2. **LC 44 0131/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159569.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Local Calendar — **158–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Morris — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-03-07** House Hopper
+- **2016-03-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-03-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-11** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-16** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-03** Act 581 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-03** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6aa49125-fe8d-409a-aa0e-ab7947cb9127`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+