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type: "Bill"
title: "Downtown Athens Development Authority; Downtown Athens Area; define and create"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Downtown Athens Development Authority, approved March 23, 1977 (Ga. L. 1977, p. 3533), as amended, which authority was created pursuant to an amendment to the Constitution as contained in Ga. L. 1975, p. 1698, and amended by Ga. L. 1976, p. 1912, so as to define and create the Downtown Athens Area; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 590"
citation: "Georgia HB 590 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Williams", "Regina Quick", "Spencer Frye"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-03-15"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/308ce8e7-3761-4e7d-914f-499bd52169ff"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "8f33302b9ae9a27eb894b032ec49439dc017da9e220d46bd266d00c54c55d20f"
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 590 (2017_18) — Downtown Athens Development Authority; Downtown Athens Area; define and create
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Downtown Athens Development Authority, approved March 23, 1977 (Ga. L. 1977, p. 3533), as amended, which authority was created pursuant to an amendment to the Constitution as contained in Ga. L. 1975, p. 1698, and amended by Ga. L. 1976, p. 1912, so as to define and create the Downtown Athens Area; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide effective dates; 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 — **1600** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chuck Williams — primary (person)
- Regina Quick — primary (person)
- Spencer Frye — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-15** House Hopper
- **2017-03-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-22** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-04** Act 154 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-04** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/308ce8e7-3761-4e7d-914f-499bd52169ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).