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type: "Bill"
title: "Lamar County Public Facilities Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Lamar County Public Facilities Authority and to provide for the appointment of members of the authority; to confer powers upon the authority; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority payable from the revenues, tolls, fees, charges, and earnings of the authority, contract payments to the authority, and from other money pledged therefor and to authorize the collection and pledging of the revenues, tolls, fees, charges, earnings, and contract payments of the authority for the payment of such revenue bonds; to authorize the execution of resolutions and trust indentures to secure the payment of the revenue bonds of the authority; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to any provisions of this Act; 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 559"
citation: "Georgia HB 559 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Knight", "Johnnie Caldwell, Jr."]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-03-06"
last_action: "2017-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a786806c-5dae-4f9d-baee-9be7655b76db"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f2797fbbc96622538526ecbc1d597609af2c9355e9cc3b0a8a1943da463c940c"
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 559 (2017_18) — Lamar County Public Facilities Authority Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Lamar County Public Facilities Authority and to provide for the appointment of members of the authority; to confer powers upon the authority; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority payable from the revenues, tolls, fees, charges, and earnings of the authority, contract payments to the authority, and from other money pledged therefor and to authorize the collection and pledging of the revenues, tolls, fees, charges, earnings, and contract payments of the authority for the payment of such revenue bonds; to authorize the execution of resolutions and trust indentures to secure the payment of the revenue bonds of the authority; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to any provisions of this Act; 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
- Local Calendar — **1460** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David Knight — primary (person)
- Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-06** House Hopper
- **2017-03-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-13** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** Act 130 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a786806c-5dae-4f9d-baee-9be7655b76db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).