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type: "Bill"
title: "Savannah State Farmers Market Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Savannah State Farmers Market Authority; to define certain terms; to provide for a board of trustees, appointment of members, and meetings; to provide for powers, duties, and purpose; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority and to authorize the collection for the payment of such revenue bonds; to make the revenue bonds of the authority exempt from taxation; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to any provisions of this Act; to provide for the validation of bonds; 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: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 942"
citation: "Georgia HB 942 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Carl Gilliard", "J. Craig Gordon", "Jesse Petrea", "Mickey Stephens", "Ron Stephens"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79fcbb01-6aea-4501-8988-be45650b8543"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "23241ee31b25f471315c8b77b1a8922a1e14738fa0db4edf907aa2c5395004b7"
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 942 (2017_18) — Savannah State Farmers Market Authority Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Savannah State Farmers Market Authority; to define certain terms; to provide for a board of trustees, appointment of members, and meetings; to provide for powers, duties, and purpose; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds of the authority and to authorize the collection for the payment of such revenue bonds; to make the revenue bonds of the authority exempt from taxation; to fix and provide the venue and jurisdiction of actions relating to any provisions of this Act; to provide for the validation of bonds; 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.
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **1420** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Carl Gilliard — primary (person)
- J. Craig Gordon — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Mickey Stephens — primary (person)
- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-14** House Hopper
- **2018-02-15** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-23** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** House Postponed
- **2018-02-28** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-09** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Veto V14 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79fcbb01-6aea-4501-8988-be45650b8543`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).