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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Eviction Service and Airplane Evictions Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 10 of Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to continuances, so as to provide for the continuance and stay of proceedings related to eviction of tenants at certain airports; to provide for a definition; to amend Code Section 44-7-51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance of summons, service, time for answer, and defenses and counterclaims, so as to provide for service by an approved process server; to provide for related matters; to provide a short title; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2025_26"
+identifier: "HB 270"
+citation: "Georgia HB 270 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AVIATION", "CIVIL PRACTICE", "PROPERTY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beth Camp", "David Jenkins", "Deborah Silcox", "Matt Reeves", "Rob Leverett", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-04"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a52090e-6928-4049-a3b2-d267a7c82095"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "b3dc935c4014989d15fc5fc90947af58553bd18f74cf4a70b764c95f8c4a27c3"
+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 270 (2025_26) — Eviction Service and Airplane Evictions Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 10 of Title 9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to continuances, so as to provide for the continuance and stay of proceedings related to eviction of tenants at certain airports; to provide for a definition; to amend Code Section 44-7-51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to issuance of summons, service, time for answer, and defenses and counterclaims, so as to provide for service by an approved process server; to provide for related matters; to provide a short title; 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 270/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238500.pdf)
+2. **LC 48 1433/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/231346.pdf)
+3. **LC 48 1536S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235683.pdf)
+4. **LC 48 1536S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/233786.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Vote #263 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **172–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #364 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beth Camp — primary (person)
+- David Jenkins — primary (person)
+- Deborah Silcox — primary (person)
+- Matt Reeves — primary (person)
+- Rob Leverett — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-04** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2025-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-06** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-06** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31** Senate Tabled
+- **2025-03-31** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2025-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-14** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-14** Act 255 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a52090e-6928-4049-a3b2-d267a7c82095`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+