---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Holly Springs Community Improvement Districts Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the creation of one or more community improvement districts in the City of Holly Springs; to provide that Chapter 5 of Title 10 of the O.C.G.A., the \"Georgia Uniform Securities Act of 2008,\" shall not apply to the offer, sale, or issuance of the bonds, notes, or other obligations; to provide that no notice, proceeding, publication, or referendum shall be required; to provide the procedures connected with all of the foregoing; to provide for the termination of districts under certain conditions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 601"
citation: "Georgia HB 601 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Carson", "Mandi Ballinger", "Michael Caldwell", "Scot Turner", "Wes Cantrell"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-03-16"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce04c106-8045-4270-aba4-78ec64725a10"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "b1157a8e6aaa39f09121e115ea92a29bf026e9441cba37d44c81d64b78be40e2"
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 601 (2017_18) — City of Holly Springs Community Improvement Districts Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for the creation of one or more community improvement districts in the City of Holly Springs; to provide that Chapter 5 of Title 10 of the O.C.G.A., the "Georgia Uniform Securities Act of 2008," shall not apply to the offer, sale, or issuance of the bonds, notes, or other obligations; to provide that no notice, proceeding, publication, or referendum shall be required; to provide the procedures connected with all of the foregoing; to provide for the termination of districts under certain conditions; 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.


## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- John Carson — primary (person)
- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
- Michael Caldwell — primary (person)
- Scot Turner — primary (person)
- Wes Cantrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-16** House Hopper
- **2017-03-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-22** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-04** Act 158 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-04** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce04c106-8045-4270-aba4-78ec64725a10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).