republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-296.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	State Park Authority; revise the powers and responsibilities	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Jekyll Island—State Park Authority, so as to revise the powers and responsibilities of the authority; to define terms; to revise the components of the master plan; to clarify development powers and restrictions for the authority; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 296	Georgia SB 296 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Earl Carter Frank Ginn Ross Tolleson Steve Henson William Ligon, Jr.	3	15	1	2014-01-17	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/43b30daf-c666-4729-9419-a8976ea5401c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	64a1484fc0652b4b6365c1eda8aae67f0fd5c13163b9d7789a95aacb0b4a5cfb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 296 (2013_14) — State Park Authority; revise the powers and responsibilities

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Jekyll Island—State Park Authority, so as to revise the powers and responsibilities of the authority; to define terms; to revise the components of the master plan; to clarify development powers and restrictions for the authority; 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 0448 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 296/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Earl Carter — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-17 Senate Hopper
• 2014-01-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-01-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-01-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-03 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-06 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-14 Act 480 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/43b30daf-c666-4729-9419-a8976ea5401c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).