republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-26.md

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Bill	State Government; meetings and public hearings of development authorities and community improvement districts to be held by teleconference; permit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state government, so as to permit meetings and public hearings of development authorities and community improvement districts to be held by teleconference; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 26	Georgia SB 26 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Clint Dixon Colton Moore Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Matt Brass Russ Goodman Shawn Still	8	20	5	2023-01-26	2024-02-13	openstates	ocd-bill/5cccf5fb-81b8-4691-b652-53ad8e7566fd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	43b4f39fb9f9bf2a00b6bfbcff4cb1674ef14272e263ec0d52b40eec88daac11	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 26 (2023_24) — State Government; meetings and public hearings of development authorities and community improvement districts to be held by teleconference; permit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state government, so as to permit meetings and public hearings of development authorities and community improvement districts to be held by teleconference; 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 46 0507 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor Amend 1 AM 46 0248 (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 2 AM 47 0082 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 47 2473S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 26/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen Floor Amend 1A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #463 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 36–12 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #26 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #478 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 51–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #450 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 157–2 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #292 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 155–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Colton Moore — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-26 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-01-30 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-02-02 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-02-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-02-07 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2023-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-23 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-01 Senate Tabled
• 2024-02-08 Senate Taken from Table
• 2024-02-08 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2024-02-08 Senate Transmitted House
• 2024-02-08 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2024-02-12 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-02-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-02-13 Act 357 executive-signature
• 2024-02-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5cccf5fb-81b8-4691-b652-53ad8e7566fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).