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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Condominiums; amount permissible as a special assessment fee; change"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to condominiums, so as to change the amount permissible as a special assessment fee; 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: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 245"
+citation: "Georgia HB 245 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Atwood", "Jay Powell", "Matt Dollar", "Stacey Evans", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-09"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58bcbceb-8859-431f-bda3-ab097e311f11"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "acbcf53afe43c67755c4131ca6dda26ad4dd0f37f86f197928ce6082ec93bd6b"
+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 245 (2015_16) — Condominiums; amount permissible as a special assessment fee; change
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to condominiums, so as to change the amount permissible as a special assessment fee; 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 245/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153833.pdf)
+2. **LC 34 4440/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147020.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **131–39** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Atwood — primary (person)
+- Jay Powell — primary (person)
+- Matt Dollar — primary (person)
+- Stacey Evans — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-09** House Hopper
+- **2015-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-02-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-31** Senate Tabled
+- **2015-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2015-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-06** Act 128 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58bcbceb-8859-431f-bda3-ab097e311f11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+