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HR 97: Property; conveyance of certain state owned property; authorize

Last action May 14, 2025 · Effective Date

House Resolution 97 authorizes the State Properties Commission to sell, lease, or exchange more than a dozen parcels of state owned land across Georgia, including forest land, prison acreage, technical college property, and communication towers.

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In plain language

Georgia law requires the General Assembly to approve most sales, leases, and exchanges of state owned real estate. This resolution bundles together roughly 18 separate property transactions across 14 counties, each requested by the state agency currently holding the land, such as the Georgia Forestry Commission, the Department of Corrections, the Technical College System of Georgia, and the Department of Public Safety. The deals range from small road-widening conveyances to the Georgia Department of Transportation, to communication tower leases with Southern Linc, to a large settlement in Glynn County resolving an ownership dispute over roughly 4,086 acres of coastal marshland claimed by a private company, Glynn New Hope. In that case the state would quitclaim its interest into escrow while a wetland mitigation bank is pursued, in exchange for a share of future mitigation credit sales. Each authorization expires three years after the resolution takes effect, and it becomes law once the Governor signs it or it becomes law without his signature.

Status timeline

  1. 2025-05-14Effective Date
  2. 2025-05-14Act 364
  3. 2025-05-14House Date Signed by Governor (House)
  4. 2025-04-07House Sent to Governor (House)
  5. 2025-03-25House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub (House)
  6. 2025-03-11Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute (Senate)
  7. 2025-03-11Senate Third Read (Senate)
  8. 2025-02-27Senate Read Second Time (Senate)
Show full history (16 actions)
  1. 2025-02-26Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute (Senate)
  2. 2025-02-12Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
  3. 2025-02-11House Passed/Adopted (House)
  4. 2025-02-11House Third Readers (House)
  5. 2025-02-06House Committee Favorably Reported (House)
  6. 2025-02-03House Second Readers (House)
  7. 2025-01-30House First Readers (House)
  8. 2025-01-29House Hopper (House)

Sponsors

  • Gerald Greene (R, HD-154)Primary sponsor
  • Emory Dunahoo (R, HD-31)
  • Michael Smith (D, HD-41)
  • Bill Werkheiser (R, HD-157)
  • Scott Hilton (R, HD-48)
  • Ed Harbison (D, SD-15)

Votes

  1. PassedHouse voteFebruary 11, 2025

    166 yea, 0 nay (6 not voting, 8 excused)

    ADOPT: House Vote #23

  2. PassedSenate voteMarch 11, 2025

    49 yea, 0 nay (1 not voting, 6 excused)

    ADOPTION BY SUBSTITUTE: Senate Vote #225

  3. PassedHouse voteMarch 25, 2025

    162 yea, 0 nay (11 not voting, 7 excused)

    Agree to Senate Substitute: House Vote #312

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