---
type: "Bill"
title: "Buildings and housing; residential industrial building; revise definition"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 8-2-111 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to factory built buildings and dwelling units, so as to revise the definition of residential industrial building; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 1008"
citation: "Georgia HB 1008 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Pirkle", "Joe Campbell", "John Corbett", "Sam Watson", "Tom McCall", "Trey Rhodes"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/002a0bcd-f7d6-45e5-8075-3d290e662f37"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "c439ada9f97483fa7aa18c7f82b120f2daacf6c9e379f78cad23cf44955cd4c9"
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 1008 (2019_20) — Buildings and housing; residential industrial building; revise definition

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 8-2-111 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to factory built buildings and dwelling units, so as to revise the definition of residential industrial building; 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 1008/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194601.pdf)
2. **LC 39 2508/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190816.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **166–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
- Joe Campbell — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Sam Watson — primary (person)
- Tom McCall — primary (person)
- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-24** House Hopper
- **2020-02-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-02-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-03-10** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-06-23** Senate Third Read Tabled
- **2020-06-23** Senate Taken from Table
- **2020-06-23** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-08-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-08-03** Act 555 `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/002a0bcd-f7d6-45e5-8075-3d290e662f37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).