---
type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Workforce Investment Board; provide for powers and duties; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 34 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Georgia Workforce Investment Board; to provide for powers and duties of the Georgia Workforce Investment Board; to provide for its meetings and chairperson; to provide for certain priorities of service; to provide for local workforce investment areas; to provide for local workforce investment boards and their composition, officers, meetings, powers, duties, and immunities; to provide for certification and funding and budgets; to provide for contracts and limitations with regard thereto; to provide for sanctions for nonperformance and lack of fiscal responsibility; to provide for the delivery of certain services and limitations thereon; 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: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 393"
citation: "Georgia HB 393 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Carter", "Edward Lindsey", "Mark Hamilton", "Matt Hatchett", "Terry Rogers", "Tom Kirby"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-19"
last_action: "2013-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f594291-4dab-4222-973e-fcd354349090"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4dd2d3110eaf2c4c164062dfd95ce877c139c2e8c6ed9760974f4275498ea4fe"
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 393 (2013_14) — Georgia Workforce Investment Board; provide for powers and duties; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 34 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Georgia Workforce Investment Board; to provide for powers and duties of the Georgia Workforce Investment Board; to provide for its meetings and chairperson; to provide for certain priorities of service; to provide for local workforce investment areas; to provide for local workforce investment boards and their composition, officers, meetings, powers, duties, and immunities; to provide for certification and funding and budgets; to provide for contracts and limitations with regard thereto; to provide for sanctions for nonperformance and lack of fiscal responsibility; to provide for the delivery of certain services and limitations thereon; 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 393/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137096.pdf)
2. **LC 28 6592ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131266.pdf)
3. **LC 28 6645ERS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133387.pdf)
4. **LC 28 6645ERS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132497.pdf)
5. **LC 36 2310ERS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131973.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **119–50** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amy Carter — primary (person)
- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
- Mark Hamilton — primary (person)
- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
- Tom Kirby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-19** House Hopper
- **2013-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-22** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-26** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2013-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-05** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Tabled
- **2013-03-28** Senate Taken from Table
- **2013-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-08** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 178 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f594291-4dab-4222-973e-fcd354349090`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).