republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-318.md

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Bill	Georgia Tourism Development Act; revise certain definitions; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Georgia Tourism Development Act," so as to revise certain definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 318	Georgia HB 318 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Christian Coomer Katie Dempsey Matt Hatchett Paul Battles Paulette Braddock Ron Stephens	6	20	1	2013-02-12	2013-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/cafe6cec-0797-4731-a90c-69fc8ae028c0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a6bd14bb078bd0c54ac186808b75a08c9de4ba0fd52b117a6b76ee5999759aae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 318 (2013_14) — Georgia Tourism Development Act; revise certain definitions; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Georgia Tourism Development Act," so as to revise certain definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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 318/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 3706ER-EC/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 34 3770ER-ECS/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 3820ER-ECS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 34 3820ER-ECS/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 34 3860S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 148–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Paul Battles — primary (person)
• Paulette Braddock — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-12 House Hopper
• 2013-02-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-27 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2013-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-22 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2013-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-25 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-29 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-29 Act 86 executive-signature
• 2013-04-29 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cafe6cec-0797-4731-a90c-69fc8ae028c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).