Georgia House Bill 1001 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-17 - House Second Readers
Pending: House Regulated Industries Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 5 of Article 3 of Chapter 12 and Part 5 of Article 8 of Chapter 14 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to pawnbrokers and liens by pawnbrokers, factors, bailees, acceptors, and depositories, respectively, so as to provide for installment pawn transactions with a fixed term for such transactions involving the pledge of a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle certificate of title as security; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations for such pawn transactions; to provide for a definition; to provide for permitted charges, term length, and prepayment of such pawn transactions; to provide for acceleration of such pawn transactions and permitted grace periods; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Pawnbrokers; installment pawn transactions with a fixed term for transactions involving the pledge of a motor vehicle as security; provide

Rep. Tom McCall [R]	Rep. Demetrius Douglas [D]	Rep. Earl Ehrhart [R]	Rep. Ron Stephens [R]
Rep. John Meadows [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-17	House	House Second Readers
2016-02-16	House	House First Readers
2016-02-11	House	House Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/48367
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20152016/157309