republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-516.md

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Bill	State government; authorize county and regional library boards to conduct meetings via teleconference	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 50-14-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to meetings open to the public, limitation on action to contest agency action, recording, notice of time and place, access to minutes, and teleconferences, so as to authorize county and regional library boards to conduct meetings via teleconference; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 516	Georgia HB 516 (2025_26)	bill	EDUCATION HEALTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES STATE GOVERNMENT	enacted	Bethany Ballard Holt Persinger Kimberly New Lee Hawkins Mitchell Scoggins Rob Leverett	8	18	3	2025-02-19	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/63318a82-6ed1-4878-bca4-cb3503064ab1	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2415f1228498e83fd85ea708465ed2a580f832c9e5ff7a40aee24c1af799ef36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 516 (2025_26) — State government; authorize county and regional library boards to conduct meetings via teleconference

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 50-14-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to meetings open to the public, limitation on action to contest agency action, recording, notice of time and place, access to minutes, and teleconferences, so as to authorize county and regional library boards to conduct meetings via teleconference; 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 516/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 47 3413/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 50 1173S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 50 1173S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. SCSFA to HB 516 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Ctee sub LC 44 3172S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 59 0008 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 49 0273 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #480 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #183 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 164–5 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #453 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 94–71 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bethany Ballard — primary (person)
• Holt Persinger — primary (person)
• Kimberly New — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Mitchell Scoggins — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-06 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
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2025-04-04 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-04-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-04-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 271 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/63318a82-6ed1-4878-bca4-cb3503064ab1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).