republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-420.md

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Bill	Local Government; require referendum approval prior to the expenditure of public funds; establishment of a fixed guideway transit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties, so as to require referendum approval prior to the expenditure of public funds for the establishment of a fixed guideway transit; to provide for definitions; to provide for submission of the question to qualified voters; to provide for ballot language; to provide for applicability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 420	Georgia SB 420 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Thompson Burt Jones Judson Hill Lindsey Tippins Renee Unterman	6	18	1	2016-02-23	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e6d5b4eb-4fd5-4514-8d54-8aa85a8d7837	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d883e8902560b127991487491d40ffcf00e0c309ee479fd4ac97e9ac82f48ba9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 420 (2015_16) — Local Government; require referendum approval prior to the expenditure of public funds; establishment of a fixed guideway transit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties, so as to require referendum approval prior to the expenditure of public funds for the establishment of a fixed guideway transit; to provide for definitions; to provide for submission of the question to qualified voters; to provide for ballot language; to provide for applicability; 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 1340 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 1356S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 39 0168 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1 AM 39 0164 (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 420/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 34–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-23 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-26 Senate Tabled
• 2016-02-29 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-02-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 624 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e6d5b4eb-4fd5-4514-8d54-8aa85a8d7837. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).