---
type: "Bill"
title: "Camden County Spaceport Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Camden County Spaceport 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, powers, and compensation; to provide for vacancies, organization, meetings, and expenses; to prohibit authority employees and members from having certain interests; to provide for definitions; to provide for venue and jurisdiction; to provide for authority purpose; to provide for charges; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for tort immunity; to provide for liberal construction; to provide related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 682"
citation: "Georgia HB 682 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Corbett", "Steven Sainz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9600e72-ad35-434b-ad38-bc41a8ff4363"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "dded3cd86a43c6513f0f9d3dc4ddab93b93ffecf312fceb0f30b0af34b2a9423"
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 682 (2019_20) — Camden County Spaceport Authority Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Camden County Spaceport 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, powers, and compensation; to provide for vacancies, organization, meetings, and expenses; to prohibit authority employees and members from having certain interests; to provide for definitions; to provide for venue and jurisdiction; to provide for authority purpose; to provide for charges; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for tort immunity; to provide for liberal construction; to provide 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 682/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187463.pdf)
2. **LC 45 0300ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185827.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185951.pdf)

## Votes

- Local Calendar — **152–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Steven Sainz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-25** House Hopper
- **2019-03-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 179 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9600e72-ad35-434b-ad38-bc41a8ff4363`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).