republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-1149.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Local government; require local constitutional officers to annually report audits of discretionary funds to the General Assembly	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 81 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government budgets and audits, so as to require local constitutional officers to annually report audits of discretionary funds to the General Assembly; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 1149	Georgia HB 1149 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Brad Thomas Mesha Mainor Steven Sainz	5	15	2	2024-02-06	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/156c7db5-0512-4ba6-9b4b-28736e562e35	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4cdbd6ffa9aa5120a96251062e64c4399d6ae4c49d16447c4b5c13a219e75c32	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1149 (2023_24) — Local government; require local constitutional officers to annually report audits of discretionary funds to the General Assembly

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 81 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local government budgets and audits, so as to require local constitutional officers to annually report audits of discretionary funds to the General Assembly; 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. HB 1149/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 2769/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 47 2909S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 47 2951S/RCS (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 47 2951S/rcs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #729 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 45–5 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #638 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 100–62 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brad Thomas — primary (person)
• Mesha Mainor — primary (person)
• Steven Sainz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-06 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-02-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 596 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/156c7db5-0512-4ba6-9b4b-28736e562e35. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).