republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/hb-480.md

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Bill	Chatham County Urban Development Authority Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Chatham County Urban Development Authority; to provide a short title; to provide for findings and determinations; to define certain terms; to provide for a board of trustees, appointment of members, and meetings; to provide for powers and duties; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority and to authorize the collection for the payment of such revenue bonds; to make the revenue bonds of the authority exempt from taxation; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to the authority; to provide for the validation of bonds; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2017_18	HB 480	Georgia HB 480 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Bill Hitchens Carl Gilliard J. Craig Gordon Jesse Petrea Mickey Stephens Ron Stephens	0	13	1	2017-02-23	2017-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6365d3f6-e083-4c78-956f-5e3b085b75ab	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f75095d61221e48575fa287aaa9f44a64877517a3c1d3c0fc4eb0b4889bdb9fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 480 (2017_18) — Chatham County Urban Development Authority Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Chatham County Urban Development Authority; to provide a short title; to provide for findings and determinations; to define certain terms; to provide for a board of trustees, appointment of members, and meetings; to provide for powers and duties; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority and to authorize the collection for the payment of such revenue bonds; to make the revenue bonds of the authority exempt from taxation; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to the authority; to provide for the validation of bonds; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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.

Votes

• Local Calendar — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Carl Gilliard — primary (person)
• J. Craig Gordon — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Mickey Stephens — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-23 House Hopper
• 2017-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2017-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2017-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2017-03-01 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2017-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2017-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-01 Act 70 executive-signature
• 2017-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6365d3f6-e083-4c78-956f-5e3b085b75ab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).