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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Water Systems; charging or assessing a separate fee for standby water service for fire sprinkler system connections; prohibit county, municipal and other public water systems"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 5 of Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public water systems, so as to prohibit county, municipal, and other public water systems from charging or assessing a separate fee for standby water service for fire sprinkler system connections; to provide for a purpose; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 404"
+citation: "Georgia SB 404 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Burt Jones", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers", "Matt Brass", "Steve Gooch", "Tyler Harper"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-02-08"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d44f733e-d45f-48b9-9491-7bc595e74c85"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "f512525e78358cb9a5ea2546f6f06c932ff847f2df2a749a9a307e7d94792303"
+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 404 (2017_18) — Public Water Systems; charging or assessing a separate fee for standby water service for fire sprinkler system connections; prohibit county, municipal and other public water systems
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 5 of Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public water systems, so as to prohibit county, municipal, and other public water systems from charging or assessing a separate fee for standby water service for fire sprinkler system connections; to provide for a purpose; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **34–14** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
+- Burt Jones — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- John Albers — primary (person)
+- Matt Brass — primary (person)
+- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
+- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-08** Senate Hopper
+- **2018-02-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-15** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-21** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-03** Act 400 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d44f733e-d45f-48b9-9491-7bc595e74c85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+