republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-612.md

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Bill	City of Cochran Public Facilities Authority; create	A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Cochran Public Facilities Authority; to provide that the authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to authorize the authority to acquire, construct, equip, maintain, and operate certain projects, including buildings and facilities for use by the City of Cochran for its governmental, proprietary, and administrative functions; to provide that certain moneys are trust funds; to provide that this Act shall be liberally construed; to define the scope of the authority's operation; to provide for disposition of property upon dissolution of the authority; to provide for severability; 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 612	Georgia SB 612 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Larry Walker, III	4	13	2	2026-03-02	2026-05-11	openstates	ocd-bill/bda080c2-7bc5-4f5a-9c9d-46c1e698fe88	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cd20d9b22209560f7d75281c8bb2f8d78d7c1d5eb24c50f8f74c38a695403bf7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 612 (2025_26) — City of Cochran Public Facilities Authority; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Cochran Public Facilities Authority; to provide that the authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to authorize the authority to acquire, construct, equip, maintain, and operate certain projects, including buildings and facilities for use by the City of Cochran for its governmental, proprietary, and administrative functions; to provide that certain moneys are trust funds; to provide that this Act shall be liberally construed; to define the scope of the authority's operation; to provide for disposition of property upon dissolution of the authority; to provide for severability; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 62 0435 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 612 Local Ad (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 612/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #639 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #734 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 153–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-03-02 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-03-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-20 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 618 executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bda080c2-7bc5-4f5a-9c9d-46c1e698fe88. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).