republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-985.md

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Bill	Crimes and offenses; filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; change provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to change provisions relating to filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; to expand the protection against the filing of false liens to all citizens; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 985	Georgia HB 985 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Bruce Williamson Edward Lindsey Josh Clark Mary Oliver Sam Teasley Tom Kirby	4	15	1	2014-02-10	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6c96ffda-ff27-462a-bcba-0cb626e7f88f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ed2603075f695cf1cb76612c914f3beb919ad0d546e987680e0f12dd48046596	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 985 (2013_14) — Crimes and offenses; filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; change provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to change provisions relating to filing false liens or encumbrances against public employees; to expand the protection against the filing of false liens to all citizens; to provide for exceptions; 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 985/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 5894/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5980S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5980S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Josh Clark — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Sam Teasley — primary (person)
• Tom Kirby — 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
• 2014-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-10 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-25 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-24 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-24 Act 626 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c96ffda-ff27-462a-bcba-0cb626e7f88f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).