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type: "Bill"
title: "Clayton County Water Authority; provide corporate powers and purposes"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Clayton County Water Authority, approved March 7, 1955 (Ga. L. 1955, p. 3344), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4325), so as to provide that said authority is a body corporate and politic, a political subdivision of the state, and a public corporation; to provide corporate powers and purposes; to provide for sovereign immunity; to provide exemption for certain liabilities; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 869"
citation: "Georgia HB 869 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Debra Bazemore", "Demetrius Douglas", "Kim Schofield", "Mike Glanton", "Rhonda Burnough", "Sandra Scott"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-31"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/760fb503-4f0a-4ca8-8f65-18cd2b469879"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "9f81be4d29ca101bbba2a9629f59f9edc1e687bf073de43026efc2daec25988f"
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 869 (2019_20) — Clayton County Water Authority; provide corporate powers and purposes
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Clayton County Water Authority, approved March 7, 1955 (Ga. L. 1955, p. 3344), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4325), so as to provide that said authority is a body corporate and politic, a political subdivision of the state, and a public corporation; to provide corporate powers and purposes; to provide for sovereign immunity; to provide exemption for certain liabilities; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB 869/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192163.pdf)
2. **LC 47 0307/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189097.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189156.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **162–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Debra Bazemore — primary (person)
- Demetrius Douglas — primary (person)
- Kim Schofield — primary (person)
- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
- Rhonda Burnough — primary (person)
- Sandra Scott — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-31** House Hopper
- **2020-02-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-02-19** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-06-30** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Act 448 `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/760fb503-4f0a-4ca8-8f65-18cd2b469879`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).