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Bill	Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center Authority; change provisions relating to membership	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center Authority, approved April 21, 1995 (Ga. L. 1995, p. 4499), as amended, so as to change the provisions relating to the membership of such authority; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 978	Georgia HB 978 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Hitchens Bob Bryant J. Craig Gordon Mickey Stephens Ron Stephens	3	21	1	2014-02-10	2014-04-15	openstates	ocd-bill/eb5e650d-a0c0-4cc5-ae3b-7737fb3f43ea	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e74419d5288ce3c469bdbb3db2ba7e164e060c5efd74ac4ab7f03862028be97e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 978 (2013_14) — Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center Authority; change provisions relating to membership

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Georgia International and Maritime Trade Center Authority, approved April 21, 1995 (Ga. L. 1995, p. 4499), as amended, so as to change the provisions relating to the membership of such authority; to provide an effective date; 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 978/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0502/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Sen floor sub LC 40 0601S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar Without HB 986 — 161–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Bob Bryant — primary (person)
• J. Craig Gordon — primary (person)
• Mickey Stephens — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-10 House Hopper
• 2014-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-17 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2014-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-19 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-03 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-13 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-13 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-13 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 531 executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eb5e650d-a0c0-4cc5-ae3b-7737fb3f43ea. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).