---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Commerce Public Facilities Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Commerce Public Facilities Authority; to provide for a short title and legislative findings; to provide for severability; to provide an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 623"
citation: "Georgia HB 623 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tommy Benton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-20"
last_action: "2013-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e45cfa8-44aa-4c24-9ed5-cdf339bb4bd6"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0f77b4ae42fa7f8b57c736bd5bd20d49acff7f4e42bce587d9a8045365086fc1"
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 623 (2013_14) — City of Commerce Public Facilities Authority Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Commerce Public Facilities Authority; to provide for a short title and legislative findings; to provide for severability; to provide an effective date; 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 623/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137121.pdf)
2. **LC 28 6757/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134854.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **161–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tommy Benton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-03-20** House Hopper
- **2013-03-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-22** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-22** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2013-03-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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 164 `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/8e45cfa8-44aa-4c24-9ed5-cdf339bb4bd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).