---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of Chamblee Public Facilities Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Chamblee Public Facilities Authority; to provide that the authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to provide for the validation of such bonds and to fix the venue for jurisdiction of actions relating to any provision of this Act; to provide for immunity and exemption from liability for torts and negligence; to provide that the property of the authority shall not be subject to levy and sale; to provide that certain moneys are trust funds; to provide that this Act shall be liberally construed; to define the scope of the authority's operation; to provide for disposition of property upon dissolution of the authority; to provide for severability; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "HB 1085"
citation: "Georgia HB 1085 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen Lupton", "Long Tran", "Scott Holcomb"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e8a9ef0-9060-4872-bdbc-ec2c624c09ed"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6959fa7a11ce5df078ce15de41ac37df23d00cf8402c4bd01352d73584625201"
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 1085 (2023_24) — City of Chamblee Public Facilities Authority Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Chamblee Public Facilities Authority; to provide that the authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to provide for the validation of such bonds and to fix the venue for jurisdiction of actions relating to any provision of this Act; to provide for immunity and exemption from liability for torts and negligence; to provide that the property of the authority shall not be subject to levy and sale; to provide that certain moneys are trust funds; to provide that this Act shall be liberally construed; to define the scope of the authority's operation; to provide for disposition of property upon dissolution of the authority; to provide for severability; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; 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 1085/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/224864.pdf)
2. **LC 44 2532/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/222450.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/222487.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Vote #522 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **51–2** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #440 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **158–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Karen Lupton — primary (person)
- Long Tran — primary (person)
- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-30** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2024-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2024-02-08** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-02-08** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2024-02-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-06** Act 640 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-06** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e8a9ef0-9060-4872-bdbc-ec2c624c09ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).