republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-62.md

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Bill	Counties and Municipal Corporations; certain local ordinances or policies relating to public camping or sleeping; prohibit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to prohibit certain local ordinances or policies relating to public camping or sleeping; to provide for enforcement; to amend Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to state government, so as to provide for a performance audit by the state auditor on public spending on homeless programs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 62	Georgia SB 62 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Blake Tillery Brandon Beach Carden Summers Frank Ginn Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Max Burns Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman Shawn Still	11	19	6	2023-01-31	2023-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1ddc7300-b149-4587-ad63-9a2032586ec0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a90f49c4abdc15487c751ea724299660d92d5ee22fbf82d061aba8f243a8739b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 62 (2023_24) — Counties and Municipal Corporations; certain local ordinances or policies relating to public camping or sleeping; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to prohibit certain local ordinances or policies relating to public camping or sleeping; to provide for enforcement; to amend Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to state government, so as to provide for a performance audit by the state auditor on public spending on homeless programs; 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 33 9277 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 9373S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 2 AM 33 2028 (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amend 3 AM 33 2027 (committee substitute) — source
7. Floor amend 4 (committee substitute) — source
8. Floor amend 4A (committee substitute) — source
9. LC 47 2474S/hss (committee substitute) — source
10. SB 62/AP* (committee substitute) — source
11. Sen floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #305 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 100–76 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #335 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 36–20 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #306 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 99–76 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #334 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 22–32 (fail) · upper
• House Vote #304 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 77–99 (fail) · lower
• Senate Vote #127 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 49–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-31 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-02-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-03-02 Senate Tabled
• 2023-03-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2023-03-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-03-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-27 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-03-27 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2023-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-03 Act 274 executive-signature
• 2023-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ddc7300-b149-4587-ad63-9a2032586ec0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).