---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sandersville School Building Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Sandersville School Building Authority; to provide for a short title; to confer powers and impose duties on the authority; to provide for the membership and the appointment of members of the authority and their terms of office, qualifications, duties, and powers; to provide for vacancies, organization, meetings, and expenses; to provide for definitions; to provide for the transfer of property; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 305"
citation: "Georgia HB 305 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mack Jackson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-11"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b1c7148-5544-4e6f-be90-994dca4e78ca"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "80059d0322a3f4bbb787d14775d14668328c783e3117d08225aa5fa95277a9e2"
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 305 (2015_16) — Sandersville School Building Authority Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Sandersville School Building Authority; to provide for a short title; to confer powers and impose duties on the authority; to provide for the membership and the appointment of members of the authority and their terms of office, qualifications, duties, and powers; to provide for vacancies, organization, meetings, and expenses; to provide for definitions; to provide for the transfer of property; 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 305/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149769.pdf)
2. **LC 21 3606/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147521.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **160–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mack Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-11** House Hopper
- **2015-02-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-02-20** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-03-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-03-06** Act 7 `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/2b1c7148-5544-4e6f-be90-994dca4e78ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).