republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-406.md

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Bill	"Georgia Property Owners' Bill of Rights Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to require the registration of property owners' associations; to provide for renewals and amendments; to provide for appeals; to provide for a State Board for Review of Complaints Regarding Property Owners' Associations; to provide for review of complaints; to amend Code Section 44-3-232 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to assessments against lot owners as constituting lien in favor of association, additional charges against lot owners, procedure for foreclosing lien, and obligation to provide statement of amounts due, so as to provide for authorization of liens and use of assessments; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 406	Georgia SB 406 (2025_26)	bill	PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES PROPERTY	enacted	Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Clint Dixon David Lucas Donzella James Drew Echols Frank Ginn Freddie Powell Sims Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Matt Brass Nan Orrock RaShaun Kemp Rick Williams Shawn Still Timothy Bearden Tonya Anderson	9	16	4	2026-01-15	2027-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f0a31085-78c2-4851-8059-2719b0cc966b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fbee0593662b3848977e479be58c36f3bfbb24e747f09c60e992c2299c15c37c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 406 (2025_26) — "Georgia Property Owners' Bill of Rights Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to require the registration of property owners' associations; to provide for renewals and amendments; to provide for appeals; to provide for a State Board for Review of Complaints Regarding Property Owners' Associations; to provide for review of complaints; to amend Code Section 44-3-232 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to assessments against lot owners as constituting lien in favor of association, additional charges against lot owners, procedure for foreclosing lien, and obligation to provide statement of amounts due, so as to provide for authorization of liens and use of assessments; to provide for a short title; 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 44 3299ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 49 2756S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor Amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor Amend 3 (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 49 2839S/hss (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 49 2879S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
9. SB 406/AP (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #796 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 155–10 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #627 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 11–40 (fail) · upper
• Senate Vote #918 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #628 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• David Lucas — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• RaShaun Kemp — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-15 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-01-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 715 executive-signature
• 2027-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0a31085-78c2-4851-8059-2719b0cc966b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).