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type: "Bill"
title: "Mobile Broadband Infrastructure Leads to Development (BILD) Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government, so as change certain provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations related to advanced broadband collocation; to provide for a short title; to provide for definitions; to make changes related to streamlined processing; to standardize certain procedures related to new wireless facilities; to place limitations on the time allowed for the review of new wireless facilities; to limit fees charged for review of wireless facilities; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 176"
citation: "Georgia HB 176 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Martin", "Don Parsons", "Mark Hamilton", "Mike Dudgeon", "Richard Smith", "Stacey Abrams"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-01-31"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67742046-52a1-4d83-8f22-df675b2c3934"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4f0c0d2d3eeb947dc29362eb0613f755e64ef50f2cc4a756db19d6ea9e924e46"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 176 (2013_14) — Mobile Broadband Infrastructure Leads to Development (BILD) Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government, so as change certain provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations related to advanced broadband collocation; to provide for a short title; to provide for definitions; to make changes related to streamlined processing; to standardize certain procedures related to new wireless facilities; to place limitations on the time allowed for the review of new wireless facilities; to limit fees charged for review of wireless facilities; 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. **HB 176/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142512.pdf)
2. **LC 36 2249/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/129420.pdf)
3. **LC 36 2280S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131714.pdf)
4. **LC 36 2330S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133018.pdf)
5. **LC 36 2428S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/138554.pdf)
6. **LC 36 2428S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137940.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1544** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Don Parsons — primary (person)
- Mark Hamilton — primary (person)
- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
- Richard Smith — primary (person)
- Stacey Abrams — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-01-31** House Hopper
- **2013-02-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-28** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2013-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-28** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2014-01-23** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-01-29** House Postponed
- **2014-01-30** House Postponed
- **2014-01-31** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-01-31** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-02-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-21** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-21** Act 569 `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67742046-52a1-4d83-8f22-df675b2c3934`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).