republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-756.md

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Bill	Chatham Area Transit Authority; abolish current memberships; provide new board	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Chatham Area Transit Authority, approved March 28, 1986 (Ga. L. 1986, p. 5082), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 11, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5296), so as to abolish the current authority memberships; to provide for new board membership; to provide terms of office; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 756	Georgia HB 756 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Anne Allen Westbrook Bill Hitchens Carl Gilliard Edna Jackson Jesse Petrea	5	15	2	2025-03-11	2025-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/56a0caab-92b6-420b-83fd-c9e93e6bb07d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	931e60d7672aec17da4cb2956e1dfdd3bce96f560062ae2ffb9f6bc2ca44cd52	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 756 (2025_26) — Chatham Area Transit Authority; abolish current memberships; provide new board

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Chatham Area Transit Authority, approved March 28, 1986 (Ga. L. 1986, p. 5082), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 11, 2012 (Ga. L. 2012, p. 5296), so as to abolish the current authority memberships; to provide for new board membership; to provide terms of office; to provide for related matters; to provide 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.

1. HB 756/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3577/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 47 3708S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 47 3708S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Local Ad (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #400 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 55–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #361 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Anne Allen Westbrook — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Carl Gilliard — primary (person)
• Edna Jackson — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-11 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2025-03-31 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-31 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 323 executive-signature
• 2025-06-30 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56a0caab-92b6-420b-83fd-c9e93e6bb07d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).