Georgia Senate Bill 72 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-01-26 - Senate Read and Referred
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to corporations organized for religious, fraternal, or educational purposes, so as to change provisions relating to land conveyances to churches or religious societies; to urge the courts to consider disputes with regard to determining the property rights of churches or religious societies be resolved by a neutral principles analysis of all relevant matters; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Corporations; land conveyances to churches or religious societies; change provisions

Sen. Hunter Hill [R]	Sen. Gregory Kirk [R]	Sen. Burt Jones [R]	Sen. Ben Watson [R]
Sen. Joshua McKoon [R]	Sen. David Shafer [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-26	Senate	Senate Read and Referred
2017-01-25	Senate	Senate Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/49951
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20172018/163607