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type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Joint Defense Commission; create"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 10 of Chapter 7 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Defense Community Economic Development Fund, so as to create the Georgia Joint Defense Commission; to provide for the membership and purposes of such commission; 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: "SB 395"
citation: "Georgia SB 395 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Bill Cowsert", "Blake Tillery", "Butch Miller", "Ed Harbison", "Ellis Black", "Freddie Sims", "Harold Jones II", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Lawrence Walker III", "Lester Jackson", "Matt Brass", "Michael 'Doc' Rhett", "Mike Dugan", "Tonya Anderson", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 0
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57e7179a-11e2-456b-9012-86d3920defa5"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6c7d2ced343596602a7fa968e6f15250b25e898bed39d6912bcdd2873af01c72"
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 SB 395 (2017_18) — Georgia Joint Defense Commission; create
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 10 of Chapter 7 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Defense Community Economic Development Fund, so as to create the Georgia Joint Defense Commission; to provide for the membership and purposes of such commission; 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 BY SUBSTITUTE — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Ed Harbison — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
- Harold Jones II — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-07** Senate Hopper
- **2018-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-07** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-09** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 399 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57e7179a-11e2-456b-9012-86d3920defa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).