republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-653.md

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Bill	Joint Liberty County, City of Gum Branch, City of Midway, City of Riceboro, and City of Walthourville Fire Protection Facilities and Equipment Authority; repeal Act	A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act creating the Joint Liberty County, City of Gum Branch, City of Midway, City of Riceboro, and City of Walthourville Fire Protection Facilities and Equipment Authority, approved April 5, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4862); to provide for the assets and liabilities thereof; to provide for related matters; to provide a specific repealer; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 653	Georgia HB 653 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Al Williams Bill Hitchens Ron Stephens	3	13	1	2019-03-21	2019-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/4055c09c-5203-49da-94b3-1c15619b623c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f5557bf4e3efea4b38ad2e0a306b17d0fc847ecf4467c14bf6cb7c3b84b51db0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 653 (2019_20) — Joint Liberty County, City of Gum Branch, City of Midway, City of Riceboro, and City of Walthourville Fire Protection Facilities and Equipment Authority; repeal Act

A BILL to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act creating the Joint Liberty County, City of Gum Branch, City of Midway, City of Riceboro, and City of Walthourville Fire Protection Facilities and Equipment Authority, approved April 5, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 4862); to provide for the assets and liabilities thereof; to provide for related matters; to provide a specific repealer; 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. HB 653/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 1230/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Local Calendar — 156–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-21 House Hopper
• 2019-03-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-26 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-29 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-11 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-06 Act 172 executive-signature
• 2019-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4055c09c-5203-49da-94b3-1c15619b623c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).