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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Water rights; public trust doctrine; remove references"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to water rights, so as to remove references to the public trust doctrine; to provide that members of the public have the right to use all navigable streams as highways and for hunting and fishing; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2023_24"
+identifier: "HB 1172"
+citation: "Georgia HB 1172 (2023_24)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "James Burchett", "Lynn Smith", "Rob Leverett", "Trey Rhodes"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-02-07"
+last_action: "2024-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f6dfb51-4320-4070-a9e8-be61c615af6f"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "09512dc06a740e0987dfe0c426a6059da0384e5e663350bf44ceb5659d61dc8f"
+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 1172 (2023_24) — Water rights; public trust doctrine; remove references
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to water rights, so as to remove references to the public trust doctrine; to provide that members of the public have the right to use all navigable streams as highways and for hunting and fishing; to provide for statutory construction; 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 1172/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/229042.pdf)
+2. **LC 55 0209/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/223161.pdf)
+3. **LC 55 0233S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/225579.pdf)
+4. **LC 55 0233S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/224412.pdf)
+5. **Sen Floor Amend 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/229015.pdf)
+6. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/229006.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Vote #804 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **34–18** (pass) · upper
+- Senate Vote #803 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **21–31** (fail) · upper
+- House Vote #547 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **107–60** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #802 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **17–32** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Al Williams — primary (person)
+- James Burchett — primary (person)
+- Lynn Smith — primary (person)
+- Rob Leverett — primary (person)
+- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-07** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2024-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-26** Senate Tabled
+- **2024-03-26** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2024-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2024-04-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-05-06** Act 597 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f6dfb51-4320-4070-a9e8-be61c615af6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+