---
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).