---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lawrenceville Building Authority; create; public corporation"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Lawrenceville Building Authority as a public corporation and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to provide for the separate enactment of each provision of this Act; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 224"
citation: "Georgia SB 224 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curt Thompson", "P. K. Martin IV"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-17"
last_action: "2015-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53055853-9cbe-44ec-9d38-35d6e911cad7"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6023d877595eaa705bcc1dd12ba0c81e8b21e40d6390fb5eff70e39637469297"
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 SB 224 (2015_16) — Lawrenceville Building Authority; create; public corporation

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Lawrenceville Building Authority as a public corporation and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to provide for the separate enactment of each provision of this Act; to provide for 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. **As introduced LC 21 3786ER** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151374.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151916.pdf)
3. **SB 224 ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151375.pdf)
4. **SB 224/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153917.pdf)

## Votes

- LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — **51–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curt Thompson — primary (person)
- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-03-17** Senate Hopper
- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-08** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Act 295 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53055853-9cbe-44ec-9d38-35d6e911cad7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).