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+type: "Bill"
+title: "\"Water Professionals Appreciation Day\"; designate the first Monday in May of each year in Georgia"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to holidays and observances, so as to designate the first Monday in May of each year as \"Water Professionals Appreciation Day\" in Georgia; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "SB 119"
+citation: "Georgia SB 119 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burt Jones", "Frank Ginn", "Rick Jeffares", "Ross Tolleson", "Steve Gooch"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-12"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7220fd5a-9ad4-4cea-b500-12f31e5de866"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "0d8261e33c5dd525ef5fcdbffbf0886b309f6c1f55bde12715f76fd961984878"
+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 SB 119 (2015_16) — "Water Professionals Appreciation Day"; designate the first Monday in May of each year in Georgia
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to holidays and observances, so as to designate the first Monday in May of each year as "Water Professionals Appreciation Day" in Georgia; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; 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. **As introduced LC 28 7455** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147975.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150012.pdf)
+3. **SB 119/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153741.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **46–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burt Jones — primary (person)
+- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
+- Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
+- Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
+- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-12** Senate Hopper
+- **2015-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-19** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-04-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-04-29** Act 27 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7220fd5a-9ad4-4cea-b500-12f31e5de866`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+