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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Homelessness Prevention Act of Chatham County; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Interagency Council on Homelessness for Chatham-Savannah; to provide for a short title and definitions; to provide for findings; to confer powers and impose duties on the authority; to provide for the membership of the authority and their terms of office; to provide for meetings; to provide for a quorum; to provide for venue; to provide for tax exemptions from levy and sale; to provide for liberal construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2025_26"
+identifier: "HB 797"
+citation: "Georgia HB 797 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Carl Gilliard", "Jesse Petrea", "Ron Stephens"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-18"
+last_action: "2025-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92595e9f-c64f-4c14-bec7-a3aab784639a"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "7537cf28cd7f2df78034304f3cf43e8e58132d565d1e5a2389a2ff5de2088d04"
+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 797 (2025_26) — Homelessness Prevention Act of Chatham County; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Interagency Council on Homelessness for Chatham-Savannah; to provide for a short title and definitions; to provide for findings; to confer powers and impose duties on the authority; to provide for the membership of the authority and their terms of office; to provide for meetings; to provide for a quorum; to provide for venue; to provide for tax exemptions from levy and sale; to provide for liberal construction; 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 797/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238125.pdf)
+2. **LC 62 0142/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/236320.pdf)
+3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/236378.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Vote #317 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **164–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #339 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Carl Gilliard — primary (person)
+- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
+- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-18** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2025-03-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-03-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-01** Act 50 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92595e9f-c64f-4c14-bec7-a3aab784639a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+