republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-949.md

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Bill	Crimes and offenses; illegal use of financial transaction cards; revise provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to illegal use of financial transaction cards, and Chapter 80 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties, municipal corporations, and other governmental entities, so as to revise a definition; to revise provisions of law relating to government purchasing cards and government credit cards; to provide for the issuance of government purchasing cards and government credit cards; to provide for the conditions for such issuance; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 949	Georgia HB 949 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Eddie Lumsden James Epps Rick Jasperse Steve Tarvin	5	16	1	2016-02-09	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b3b328cd-77ba-4ff0-855c-96c2d88fc6cc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ac0c65aaccf1e44b738af8bcd9bad121e753cde3b0576c460f99d441f9ef620d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 949 (2015_16) — Crimes and offenses; illegal use of financial transaction cards; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to illegal use of financial transaction cards, and Chapter 80 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties, municipal corporations, and other governmental entities, so as to revise a definition; to revise provisions of law relating to government purchasing cards and government credit cards; to provide for the issuance of government purchasing cards and government credit cards; to provide for the conditions for such issuance; 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. HB 949/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 7916ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6982ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6982ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 29 7090ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Steve Tarvin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-09 House Hopper
• 2016-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 484 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b3b328cd-77ba-4ff0-855c-96c2d88fc6cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).