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type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation, Department of; state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to officers in the Department of Transportation, so as to provide for state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; to provide for a definition; to provide that the commissioner of transportation may administer a Georgia Freight Railroad Program; to provide for subprograms within such program; to provide for annual reporting; to provide for standards for expenditure of funds; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 820"
citation: "Georgia HB 820 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Calvin Smyre", "Kasey Carpenter", "Kevin Tanner", "Tom McCall"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-27"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90a7c449-b755-4f4c-b2ce-f6744ff3507c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4ba825fffc7e3fbcbb51ccccdc79fab89369cdb11f390df0b8427b897e1811d0"
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"]
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# Georgia HB 820 (2019_20) — Transportation, Department of; state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to officers in the Department of Transportation, so as to provide for state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; to provide for a definition; to provide that the commissioner of transportation may administer a Georgia Freight Railroad Program; to provide for subprograms within such program; to provide for annual reporting; to provide for standards for expenditure of funds; 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. **HB 820/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194378.pdf)
2. **LC 39 2464/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/188408.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **162–1** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
- Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Tom McCall — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-27** House Hopper
- **2020-01-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-01-31** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-05** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-06-17** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-17** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-08-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-08-05** Act 593 `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90a7c449-b755-4f4c-b2ce-f6744ff3507c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).