republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-242.md

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Bill	Downtown Development Authorities; undertake projects; reducing energy or water consumption; renewable resources	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 36-42-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to powers of downtown development authorities generally, so as to provide that downtown development authorities may undertake projects regarding reducing energy or water consumption on property or installing an improvement to property that produces energy from renewable resources within the territorial boundaries of the municipality; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 242	Georgia SB 242 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Hunter Hill Jeff Mullis	3	15	1	2013-02-28	2013-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/960d0a1c-e4db-4d22-8a9a-b89de0871533	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	83850b9189239159cd79f68dccf2f108cb45eec01493e3a425bd32d3ec8b5a89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 242 (2013_14) — Downtown Development Authorities; undertake projects; reducing energy or water consumption; renewable resources

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 36-42-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to powers of downtown development authorities generally, so as to provide that downtown development authorities may undertake projects regarding reducing energy or water consumption on property or installing an improvement to property that produces energy from renewable resources within the territorial boundaries of the municipality; to provide for related matters; 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. As introduced LC 28 6674 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB242/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 36–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-28 Senate Hopper
• 2013-03-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-26 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 231 executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/960d0a1c-e4db-4d22-8a9a-b89de0871533. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).