---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"City of Decatur Public Facilities Authority Act\""
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Decatur Public Facilities Authority and to provide for the appointment of members of the authority; to confer powers upon the authority; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to any provisions of this Act; to exempt the property and revenue bonds of the authority from taxation; to provide for the separate enactment of a certain provision of this Act; to provide for a short title; 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: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 124"
citation: "Georgia SB 124 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elena Parent"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f3bfa70-3a3b-4ba4-b8cf-1ecba1baade1"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "ef909a56024dd20080b64ab89887fcd9eb6a4c77842275309eba9cd3d815220d"
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 SB 124 (2017_18) — "City of Decatur Public Facilities Authority Act"

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Decatur Public Facilities Authority and to provide for the appointment of members of the authority; to confer powers upon the authority; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to any provisions of this Act; to exempt the property and revenue bonds of the authority from taxation; to provide for the separate enactment of a certain provision of this Act; to provide for a short title; 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.


## Votes

- LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elena Parent — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-07** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-01** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-17** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-17** Act 9 `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-17** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f3bfa70-3a3b-4ba4-b8cf-1ecba1baade1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).