republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-139.md

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Bill	Contracts; collection of closing fees; advance of money/extension of credit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for contracts, so as to provide for the collection of closing fees for contracts for the advance of money or the extension of credit; to provide for the refund of closing fees in certain instances; to provide for exclusions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 139	Georgia SB 139 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones Butch Miller Cecil Staton David Shafer Earl Carter Ed Harbison Jack Murphy Jeff Mullis John Wilkinson Joshua McKoon William Jackson	6	16	1	2013-02-08	2013-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/df2f071f-9b9d-4bc9-b241-4a3aead96523	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f11fc54a9ea4c4c71eefe6901e2c7b6571411acb0e540a0df1d749b3795c32d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 139 (2013_14) — Contracts; collection of closing fees; advance of money/extension of credit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for contracts, so as to provide for the collection of closing fees for contracts for the advance of money or the extension of credit; to provide for the refund of closing fees in certain instances; to provide for exclusions; 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 39 0372 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 0421S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 39 0038 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 39 0474S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 139/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 34–18 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Cecil Staton — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Earl Carter — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Jack Murphy — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-09 Act 13 executive-signature
• 2013-04-09 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df2f071f-9b9d-4bc9-b241-4a3aead96523. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).