republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-194.md

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Bill	Natural Resources Dept.; include an exemption for restoration of certain barns; promote Georgia tourist destinations	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-3-50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the powers and duties of the Department of Natural Resources relative to historic preservation and promotion, so as to include an exemption for restoration of certain barns used to promote Georgia tourist destinations; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 194	Georgia SB 194 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Cecil Staton Charlie Bethel Chuck Hufstetler David Shafer Frank Ginn Jeff Mullis John Wilkinson Steve Gooch	3	15	1	2013-02-21	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/36fd2c5f-9107-491d-a771-8f7bb1e5ca81	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	206639ae50f9a5fe250b2913f6e8ac438a34acdf8a6e72a629021de9a25fe0e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 194 (2013_14) — Natural Resources Dept.; include an exemption for restoration of certain barns; promote Georgia tourist destinations

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-3-50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the powers and duties of the Department of Natural Resources relative to historic preservation and promotion, so as to include an exemption for restoration of certain barns used to promote Georgia tourist destinations; 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 40 0310ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 194/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Cecil Staton — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-03 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-02 Act 131 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36fd2c5f-9107-491d-a771-8f7bb1e5ca81. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).