republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-70.md

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Bill	Transportation, Dept. of; change type of projects eligible for design-build contracts and procurement process	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 2 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Transportation's power to contract generally, so as to change the type of projects eligible for design-build contracts and the procurement process for such contracts; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 70	Georgia SB 70 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Butch Miller Cecil Staton Charlie Bethel Chuck Hufstetler Don Balfour Frank Ginn Jack Murphy Jason Carter Jeff Mullis John Wilkinson Joshua McKoon Judson Hill Rick Jeffares Ronnie Chance Steve Gooch Tommie Williams Tyler Harper William Jackson William Ligon, Jr.	4	15	1	2013-01-28	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d4881cb4-2bc1-4c72-98c5-ecf25ef7e005	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	466e568003ca0f52b584ac085158062be2b94fb56b1b3953f365a04c330dd1f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 70 (2013_14) — Transportation, Dept. of; change type of projects eligible for design-build contracts and procurement process

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 2 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Transportation's power to contract generally, so as to change the type of projects eligible for design-build contracts and the procurement process for such contracts; 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 39 0345 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 0392S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 70/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Cecil Staton — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Don Balfour — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jack Murphy — primary (person)
• Jason Carter — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Ronnie Chance — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2013-01-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-12 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
• 2013-04-18 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-18 Act 19 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d4881cb4-2bc1-4c72-98c5-ecf25ef7e005. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).