---
type: "Bill"
title: "Brantley County Airport Authority; transfer all assets, property, and legal rights and obligations to Brantley County"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act creating the Brantley County Airport Authority, approved May 14, 2008 (Ga. L. 2008, p. 4380); to provide for the transfer of all assets, property, and legal rights and obligations of the Brantley County Airport Authority to Brantley County; to provide for transfer of records and pending matters; to provide for transfer of employees; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 655"
citation: "Georgia HB 655 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-21"
last_action: "2014-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f212789-10ad-48b1-b2f5-428747847811"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e06488c8a4fc123135b841ab80e79faf0330f6d248b61227da1b71aaaa1b6306"
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 655 (2013_14) — Brantley County Airport Authority; transfer all assets, property, and legal rights and obligations to Brantley County

A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act creating the Brantley County Airport Authority, approved May 14, 2008 (Ga. L. 2008, p. 4380); to provide for the transfer of all assets, property, and legal rights and obligations of the Brantley County Airport Authority to Brantley County; to provide for transfer of records and pending matters; to provide for transfer of employees; 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 655/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142586.pdf)
2. **LC 41 0064/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135140.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **156–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-03-21** House Hopper
- **2013-03-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-10** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-10** Act 359 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-10** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f212789-10ad-48b1-b2f5-428747847811`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).