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type: "Bill"
title: "Urban Redevelopment Law; include blighted areas; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 61 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the \"Urban Redevelopment Law,\" so as to include blighted areas; to modernize terminology; to provide for the use of surface transportation projects in urban redevelopment areas; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "Georgia HB 174 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dustin Hightower", "Kimberly Alexander", "LaDawn Jones", "Micah Gravley", "Roger Bruce"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-01-29"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d941c2ec-44d6-4b49-aac8-c4a20dd15c02"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "708ebeef136c45338b431eb650cb8c6a63df061919ae7a18edc10a0e84c52ba8"
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 174 (2015_16) — Urban Redevelopment Law; include blighted areas; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 61 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Urban Redevelopment Law," so as to include blighted areas; to modernize terminology; to provide for the use of surface transportation projects in urban redevelopment areas; to provide for definitions; 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 174/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152095.pdf)
2. **LC 21 3541/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146376.pdf)
3. **LC 21 3662S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151331.pdf)
4. **LC 21 3662S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150153.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1740** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dustin Hightower — primary (person)
- Kimberly Alexander — primary (person)
- LaDawn Jones — primary (person)
- Micah Gravley — primary (person)
- Roger Bruce — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-01-29** House Hopper
- **2015-02-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-19** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-23** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Act 208 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d941c2ec-44d6-4b49-aac8-c4a20dd15c02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).