republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-78.md

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Bill	"City of Tybee Island Buildings and Public Facilities Authority Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Tybee Island Building and Public Facilities Authority; to provide that the authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; 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 78	Georgia SB 78 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Billy Hickman Clint Dixon Derek Mallow	4	13	2	2025-02-03	2025-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/da34986c-ebc3-4793-ac9f-fdfe1f5594e9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ea297581182e0859850bc6744dd86d910ee319dcdef8f7bb91d27d2007fa6086	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 78 (2025_26) — "City of Tybee Island Buildings and Public Facilities Authority Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the City of Tybee Island Building and Public Facilities Authority; to provide that the authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; 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 introduced LC 61 0029 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 78 Local Ad (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 78/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #148 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 172–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #33 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Derek Mallow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Act 53 executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da34986c-ebc3-4793-ac9f-fdfe1f5594e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).