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type: "Bill"
title: "Real estate appraisers; requirements for establishment and maintenance of a real estate appraisal management company; change certain provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 39A of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to real estate appraisers, so as to change certain provisions relating to requirements for the establishment and maintenance of a real estate appraisal management company; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 253"
citation: "Georgia HB 253 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Harrell", "Howard Maxwell", "John Pezold", "Mandi Ballinger", "Sam Teasley", "Tommy Benton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-09"
last_action: "2015-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1de942b-09ec-4c3e-ae7f-7cf3b77baded"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d97ec2e47263b3440ce2418a16bb369fd39a72f72692dc69519325da5f627a51"
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 253 (2015_16) — Real estate appraisers; requirements for establishment and maintenance of a real estate appraisal management company; change certain provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 39A of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to real estate appraisers, so as to change certain provisions relating to requirements for the establishment and maintenance of a real estate appraisal management company; 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 253/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153571.pdf)
2. **LC 36 2681/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147063.pdf)
3. **Sen ctee sub LC 36 2819ERS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152509.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1581** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brett Harrell — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- John Pezold — primary (person)
- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
- Sam Teasley — primary (person)
- Tommy Benton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-09** House Hopper
- **2015-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-09** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-09** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-31** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-29** Act 29 `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-29** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1de942b-09ec-4c3e-ae7f-7cf3b77baded`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).