republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-255.md

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Bill	"OneGeorgia Authority Act"; grant program to support border region retail and tourism projects; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "OneGeorgia Authority Act," so as to provide for a grant program to support border region retail and tourism projects; to provide for criteria; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 255	Georgia SB 255 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Butch Miller Chuck Payne Frank Ginn Jeff Mullis Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Steve Gooch	4	18	1	2021-02-24	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0f9d11a8-3843-4ae2-b504-02c295ec0712	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d9187e53e6dc552355b65eede573c57c55411dc9e6d88b3c574085252fc45dc8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 255 (2021_22) — "OneGeorgia Authority Act"; grant program to support border region retail and tourism projects; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "OneGeorgia Authority Act," so as to provide for a grant program to support border region retail and tourism projects; to provide for criteria; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for a definition; 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 50 0184 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 50 0223S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 255/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON THE RULES CALENDAR — 32–17 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-24 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-03-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-05 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-05 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-06 Act 249 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f9d11a8-3843-4ae2-b504-02c295ec0712. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).