--- title: HB 1155. Tift County; board of commissioners; revise purchasing provisions collection: bills id: 2025-2026/hb1155 cite_as: HB 1155, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1155 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1155.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1155/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/72720 date: 2026-05-11 status: passed corpus_version: bills-2026-09-13 license: Public record of the Georgia General Assembly, via LegiScan; see about.md publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1154.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1156.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/index.md omitted: votes and history omitted_chars: 887 omitted_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1155.md?full=1 bill_number: HB 1155 session: 2025-2026 Regular Session session_slug: 2025-2026 chamber: House bill_type: bill status_date: 2026-05-11 last_action: Effective Date 2026-05-11 sponsors: - Jaclyn Ford - Angie O'Steen text_version: Enrolled has_text: true legiscan_url: https://legiscan.com/GA/bill/HB1155/2025 upstream_id: 2104373 summaries_model: claude-sonnet-5 topic_tags: - Tift County government - local legislation - county purchasing rules - government procurement --- # HB 1155. Tift County; board of commissioners; revise purchasing provisions ## Text House Bill 1155 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE) By: Representatives Ford of the 170th and O’Steen of the 169th A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend an Act creating a board of commissioners for Tift County, approved August 9, 1917 (Ga. L. 1917, p. 396), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 28, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 4875), so as to revise purchasing provisions; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1. An Act creating a board of commissioners for Tift County, approved August 9, 1917 (Ga. L. 1917, p. 396), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 28, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 4875), is amended by striking Section 10A and revising Section 10 as follows: "SECTION 10. Purchasing and Bidding Procedures. The board of commissioners shall be the purchasing agent of Tift County and shall purchase any and all things for the use of the county. Purchasing and bidding procedures shall be done in accordance with a purchasing and bidding policy adopted by the board." SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed. ## Summaries written by Georgia Commons The following was written by claude-sonnet-5 from the text above and is not part of the bill. Quote the text, not the summary. A local Georgia House bill would rewrite the purchasing and bidding rules for the Tift County board of commissioners, letting the board set its own purchasing policy instead of following older detailed procedures written into county law. ### Plain-language summary Tift County's government operates under a special local Act from 1917 that the General Assembly has amended many times, most notably in 1985. That law includes specific sections spelling out how the county board of commissioners must handle purchasing and competitive bidding. This bill removes one of those sections (Section 10A) entirely and rewrites Section 10. Under the new language, the board of commissioners remains the county's purchasing agent responsible for buying goods and services for county use, but instead of following the old statutory procedures, purchasing and bidding will now be governed by a purchasing and bidding policy that the board itself adopts. The bill also repeals any conflicting laws, which is standard language clearing the way for the new provision to take effect. ### What it does - Deletes Section 10A of Tift County's local governing Act, removing whatever specific purchasing rule it previously contained. - Rewrites Section 10 so the county board of commissioners continues to serve as the county's purchasing agent for all county purchases. - Shifts control over detailed purchasing and bidding procedures from the text of the law itself to a policy the board of commissioners adopts on its own. - Repeals any other state or local laws that conflict with this change. ### Who it affects Tift County's board of commissioners, county government staff who handle procurement, and vendors or contractors who do business with Tift County by bidding on county purchases and contracts. ### Why it matters By moving purchasing rules out of the statute and into a board-adopted policy, Tift County commissioners gain more flexibility to change how they buy goods and services without needing the General Assembly to amend the law each time, though this also removes previously fixed statutory bidding requirements. ### Key provisions - Section 1 strikes Section 10A of the 1917 Act (as amended in 1985) entirely, eliminating that separate purchasing provision. - Section 1 also revises Section 10 to name the board of commissioners as Tift County's purchasing agent for all county purchases. - Section 1 requires that purchasing and bidding be conducted according to a purchasing and bidding policy adopted by the board rather than fixed statutory steps. - Section 2 repeals any conflicting laws, a standard clause ensuring the new provision controls over inconsistent prior law. ## Status - Status: Passed (2026-05-11) - Last action: Effective Date 2026-05-11 (2026-05-11) - Sponsors: Jaclyn Ford, Angie O'Steen - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/72720 > The history, votes, and amendments (887 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/hb1155.md?full=1