republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-454.md

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Bill	Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to parks, historic areas, memorials, and recreation, so as to create the Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund and Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund Program; to provide for a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide matching grants to organizations seeking to acquire property interests in certain battlefields; to provide for procedures, requirements, and limitations for such fund and program; to provide for application and review criteria; to provide for expenditure of funds; to provide for annual accounting; to require that any acquisition include a perpetual conservation easement placing restrictions on the use or development of the property or interest therein; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 454	Georgia HB 454 (2025_26)	bill	CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES PROPERTY	enacted	Clint Crowe Gary Richardson Houston Gaines Jason Ridley Marcus Wiedower Trey Rhodes	5	17	2	2025-02-13	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b030ce62-6ae2-42e3-8fff-b312452f1623	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	07dc4f2d1bd364ddedd72864f9645b0a19cde5d372cf4ee581d9b789f0db515c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 454 (2025_26) — Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to parks, historic areas, memorials, and recreation, so as to create the Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund and Vince Dooley Battlefield Trust Fund Program; to provide for a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide matching grants to organizations seeking to acquire property interests in certain battlefields; to provide for procedures, requirements, and limitations for such fund and program; to provide for application and review criteria; to provide for expenditure of funds; to provide for annual accounting; to require that any acquisition include a perpetual conservation easement placing restrictions on the use or development of the property or interest therein; 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 454/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 59 0090/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 59 0113S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 59 0113S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Ctee sub LC 59 0143S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #138 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 157–14 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #388 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Clint Crowe — primary (person)
• Gary Richardson — primary (person)
• Houston Gaines — primary (person)
• Jason Ridley — primary (person)
• Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
• Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-12 Act 116 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b030ce62-6ae2-42e3-8fff-b312452f1623. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).