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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Water pollution; establish water emergency response procedures"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of water pollution and surface-water use, so as to establish water emergency response procedures; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 549"
+citation: "Georgia HB 549 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Bill Hitchens", "Butch Parrish", "Jan Tankersley", "Jon Burns", "Ron Stephens"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-03-05"
+last_action: "2014-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f92201e2-b3ab-4e0a-85e3-ef468b8616ab"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d3ba28bc65d32063b2c900e984e9f12e244877d0a9f8b7563ab75d1ef72aedcc"
+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 549 (2013_14) — Water pollution; establish water emergency response procedures
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of water pollution and surface-water use, so as to establish water emergency response procedures; 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 549/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144449.pdf)
+2. **LC 40 0354/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133404.pdf)
+3. **LC 40 0589S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141577.pdf)
+4. **LC 40 0589S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141178.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **157–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Butch Parrish — primary (person)
+- Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
+- Jon Burns — primary (person)
+- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-03-05** House Hopper
+- **2013-03-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2013-03-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-13** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-15** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-15** Act 501 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f92201e2-b3ab-4e0a-85e3-ef468b8616ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+