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type: "Bill"
title: "Dodge County Building and Public Facilities Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Dodge County Building and Public Facilities Authority; to provide that such authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to authorize the adoption of resolutions and the execution of trust indentures to secure the payment of such bonds and to define the rights of the holders of such bonds; to provide for a sinking fund; to provide that the property of the authority shall not be subject to levy and sale; to provide that certain moneys are trust funds; to provide that this Act shall be liberally construed; to define the scope of the authority's operation; to provide for disposition of property upon authority dissolution; to provide for severability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "HB 786"
citation: "Georgia HB 786 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danny Mathis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-18"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c15dd2f-b69a-4770-b26d-20805b9252ae"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "47f786058a472894b93d9078a81ad9057f395a35aed2e6bb008f6b5c691aa616"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 786 (2025_26) — Dodge County Building and Public Facilities Authority Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Dodge County Building and Public Facilities Authority; to provide that such authority is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of the State of Georgia; to authorize the adoption of resolutions and the execution of trust indentures to secure the payment of such bonds and to define the rights of the holders of such bonds; to provide for a sinking fund; to provide that the property of the authority shall not be subject to levy and sale; to provide that certain moneys are trust funds; to provide that this Act shall be liberally construed; to define the scope of the authority's operation; to provide for disposition of property upon authority dissolution; to provide for severability; 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 786/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238649.pdf)
2. **LC 47 3567/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/236287.pdf)
3. **Local Ad** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/236388.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #381 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **51–0** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #317 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **164–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Danny Mathis — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-18** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2025-03-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13** Act 227 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c15dd2f-b69a-4770-b26d-20805b9252ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).