republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-168.md

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Bill	Public Contracts; contracting and bidding requirements	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 13 of the O.C.G.A., relating to bonds relating to contracts for public works, and Article 2 of Chapter 91 of Title 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to contracting and bidding requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 168	Georgia SB 168 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Jack Hill Jeff Mullis Joshua McKoon Lindsey Tippins Mike Dugan Ronnie Chance Ross Tolleson Tommie Williams	6	16	1	2013-02-14	2013-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/0ff0fd62-ef08-4fbf-86c5-548a6b063db7	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	dc746b6d9e8eadc06092a156e85a4d6fd558e9ae04feb79bdb06f59bec6eace5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 168 (2013_14) — Public Contracts; contracting and bidding requirements

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 13 of the O.C.G.A., relating to bonds relating to contracts for public works, and Article 2 of Chapter 91 of Title 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to contracting and bidding requirements; 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. As introduced LC 28 6576 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 28 6661S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5647S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 168/AP* (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 168/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Ronnie Chance — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-14 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-24 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-24 Act 30 executive-signature
• 2013-04-24 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ff0fd62-ef08-4fbf-86c5-548a6b063db7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).