---
type: "Bill"
title: "Banking and finance; extensively revise Title 7; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to banking and finance, so to extensively revise said title; to provide for definitions relative to banking and finance; to provide for standards of notice for the Department of Banking and Finance; to provide for rules and regulations of the department; to provide for the deposit of funds in merchant acquirer limited purpose banks; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 184"
citation: "Georgia HB 184 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce Williamson", "Christian Coomer", "David Knight", "Greg Morris", "Trey Kelley", "Virgil Fludd"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-02"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64f7400e-0830-4083-82e1-6e4b4fea2a3a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "fc3af57b4e5e576f78996e6f10eb310b29a8fad8a47b8708f78d0f329886d9e4"
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 184 (2015_16) — Banking and finance; extensively revise Title 7; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to banking and finance, so to extensively revise said title; to provide for definitions relative to banking and finance; to provide for standards of notice for the Department of Banking and Finance; to provide for rules and regulations of the department; to provide for the deposit of funds in merchant acquirer limited purpose banks; 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 184/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151894.pdf)
2. **LC 39 0866ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146573.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **158–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- David Knight — primary (person)
- Greg Morris — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
- Virgil Fludd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-02** House Hopper
- **2015-02-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-26** House Postponed
- **2015-03-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-02** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-19** Senate Tabled
- **2015-03-20** Senate Taken from Table
- **2015-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Act 64 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64f7400e-0830-4083-82e1-6e4b4fea2a3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).