republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-225.md

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Bill	DeKalb County; community improvement districts created within municipalities; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating one or more community improvement districts within DeKalb County, approved May 13, 2008 (Ga. L. 2008, p. 3817), as amended, so as to change certain provisions so that community improvement districts may be created within municipalities in DeKalb County; to provide for a millage rate cap; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 225	Georgia SB 225 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ronald Ramsey, Sr. Steve Henson	5	15	1	2015-03-18	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/de1a5d41-8897-47b1-a221-0c794ec3e1eb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fe7e6916cb0b12b60cf7bc6a803e8b7f9f968721fbcb7ffa16b06259f8743d04	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 225 (2015_16) — DeKalb County; community improvement districts created within municipalities; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating one or more community improvement districts within DeKalb County, approved May 13, 2008 (Ga. L. 2008, p. 3817), as amended, so as to change certain provisions so that community improvement districts may be created within municipalities in DeKalb County; to provide for a millage rate cap; 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 21 3766 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 44 0001ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 225 ad (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 225/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• LOCAL CONSENT CALENDAR — 44–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ronald Ramsey, Sr. — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-18 Senate Hopper
• 2015-03-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-08 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-08 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 538 executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de1a5d41-8897-47b1-a221-0c794ec3e1eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).