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type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development, Department of; grants to certain organizations supporting military communities; create program"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Economic Development, so as to create a program for making grants to certain organizations supporting military communities; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 470"
citation: "Georgia HB 470 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Brian Prince", "Calvin Smyre", "Christian Coomer", "Dave Belton", "Shaw Blackmon"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-22"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a410767-2156-4706-8d9e-f6cf97b652a0"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f36b859e34dda16f896ff60e373f75cc2741d123c0c4bf9d951c35ccfe115a3a"
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 470 (2017_18) — Economic Development, Department of; grants to certain organizations supporting military communities; create program
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Economic Development, so as to create a program for making grants to certain organizations supporting military communities; to provide for legislative findings; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1691** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Al Williams — primary (person)
- Brian Prince — primary (person)
- Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-22** House Hopper
- **2017-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-08** Act 185 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a410767-2156-4706-8d9e-f6cf97b652a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).