republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-144.md

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Bill	Housing Authorities; ability of city housing authorities to operate outside municipal boundaries without authorization; limit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for housing authorities, so as to limit the ability of city housing authorities to operate outside municipal boundaries without authorization; to revise a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 144	Georgia SB 144 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Lindsey Tippins Marty Harbin Max Burns Steve Gooch	4	19	1	2021-02-10	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f6032d5c-2783-450a-8ded-fd6487e4aa40	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6ea4d027b044a1d0adb319c2cbe39323dace6059289974845ea526cd08771d4e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 144 (2021_22) — Housing Authorities; ability of city housing authorities to operate outside municipal boundaries without authorization; limit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for housing authorities, so as to limit the ability of city housing authorities to operate outside municipal boundaries without authorization; to revise a definition; 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.

1. As introduced LC 47 0636 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 47 1071S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 144/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 36–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-10 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-08 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-08 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-08 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-08 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-03-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-23 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 211 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6032d5c-2783-450a-8ded-fd6487e4aa40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).