republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-702.md

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Bill	State government; placement of monument on capitol grounds; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state flag, seal, and other symbols, so as to provide for placement of a monument depicting the Ten Commandments, Preamble to the state Constitution, and Preamble to the United States Constitution; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 702	Georgia HB 702 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Greg Morris Paul Battles Randy Nix	5	16	1	2013-12-05	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4b8c5f28-3dc2-4316-a3ae-ae9476951bc5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a8e578f6a26bf6c18aef9b86f76df0ce29575335970e42801dc29fa36f5b0ade	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 702 (2013_14) — State government; placement of monument on capitol grounds; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state flag, seal, and other symbols, so as to provide for placement of a monument depicting the Ten Commandments, Preamble to the state Constitution, and Preamble to the United States Constitution; 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 702/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0439/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 0439/pf (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 0586S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 40 0586S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 138–37 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Greg Morris — primary (person)
• Paul Battles — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-12-05 House Prefiled introduction
• 2014-01-13 House Hopper
• 2014-01-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-24 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 661 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b8c5f28-3dc2-4316-a3ae-ae9476951bc5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).