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type: "Bill"
title: "Gainesville Convention and Visitors Bureau Authority Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Gainesville Convention and Visitors Bureau Authority as a public body corporate and politic, a political subdivision of the state, and a public corporation to have the responsibility and authority to promote tourism, conventions, and trade shows in the City of Gainesville, Georgia; to provide for the creation and organization of the authority; to provide for the appointment of the directors of the authority and their terms of office, compensation, and qualifications; to provide for meetings; to provide for legislative findings and declaration of purpose; to provide for general powers; to provide for regulations; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing and relative to the general purposes of this Act; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 1132"
citation: "Georgia HB 1132 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carl Rogers", "Emory Dunahoo", "Lee Hawkins", "Timothy Barr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-03-07"
last_action: "2014-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e82a74cb-91ba-4e52-b7e0-46672182d5b6"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "b369277d1c33802ecaba93399b3125b55efd88b9a027c2ab98afa933555e9f86"
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 1132 (2013_14) — Gainesville Convention and Visitors Bureau Authority Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to create the Gainesville Convention and Visitors Bureau Authority as a public body corporate and politic, a political subdivision of the state, and a public corporation to have the responsibility and authority to promote tourism, conventions, and trade shows in the City of Gainesville, Georgia; to provide for the creation and organization of the authority; to provide for the appointment of the directors of the authority and their terms of office, compensation, and qualifications; to provide for meetings; to provide for legislative findings and declaration of purpose; to provide for general powers; to provide for regulations; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing and relative to the general purposes of this Act; to provide for an effective date; 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 1132/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/145012.pdf)
2. **LC 28 7198ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142751.pdf)
3. **LC 28 7204ERS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143032.pdf)
4. **LC 28 7204ERS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143025.pdf)
## Votes
- Local Calendar — **158–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Carl Rogers — primary (person)
- Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Timothy Barr — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-03-07** House Hopper
- **2014-03-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-03-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-03-11** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-03-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Act 653 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e82a74cb-91ba-4e52-b7e0-46672182d5b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).