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Bill Local government authorities; register with Department of Community Affairs; require A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government, so as to require local government authorities to register with the Department of Community Affairs in order to be eligible for state funds; to change the deadline for local government authorities to register with said department; to prohibit authorities from incurring debt or credit obligations prior to submitting a report to said department; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 HB 257 Georgia HB 257 (2017_18)
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Jan Tankersley
Jay Powell
Lynn Smith
Matt Hatchett
Ron Stephens
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Georgia HB 257 (2017_18) — Local government authorities; register with Department of Community Affairs; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government, so as to require local government authorities to register with the Department of Community Affairs in order to be eligible for state funds; to change the deadline for local government authorities to register with said department; to prohibit authorities from incurring debt or credit obligations prior to submitting a report to said department; 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.

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1602 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • James Epps — primary (person)
  • Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
  • Jay Powell — primary (person)
  • Lynn Smith — primary (person)
  • Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
  • Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-02-07 House Hopper
  • 2017-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2017-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2017-02-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-02-21 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2017-02-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2017-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2017-03-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2017-03-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2017-03-28 Senate Tabled
  • 2018-01-08 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2018-01-08 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
  • 2018-02-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2018-03-09 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2018-03-09 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2018-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2018-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2018-05-03 Act 306 executive-signature
  • 2018-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d198fb32-2d6f-4a47-8bf3-52a8cb8832eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).