republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-5.md

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Bill	Georgia Ports Authority; provide for powers; acceptance of loans/grants from United States upon certain terms and conditions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 52-2-9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general powers of the Georgia Ports Authority, so as to provide for powers of the authority with respect to acceptance of loans or grants from the United States upon certain terms and conditions; 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	SB 5	Georgia SB 5 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert William Ligon, Jr.	4	15	1	2015-01-29	2015-02-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e29e6d8f-7960-4fc5-9fa7-cd1ae22609c2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9d220ebc6c49af4590f02bdc8835942cb5011385b00d652a6f5df4b4d7539856	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 5 (2015_16) — Georgia Ports Authority; provide for powers; acceptance of loans/grants from United States upon certain terms and conditions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 52-2-9 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general powers of the Georgia Ports Authority, so as to provide for powers of the authority with respect to acceptance of loans or grants from the United States upon certain terms and conditions; 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. As introduced LC 25 6464ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 1897ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 5/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-29 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-02 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-02-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-10 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-19 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-20 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-02-23 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-02-23 Act 2 executive-signature
• 2015-02-23 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e29e6d8f-7960-4fc5-9fa7-cd1ae22609c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).