---
type: "Bill"
title: "Waste management; sunset date for certain solid waste surcharges and hazardous waste fees; extend"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to waste management, so as to extend the sunset date for certain solid waste surcharges and hazardous waste fees; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 792"
citation: "Georgia HB 792 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Randy Nix", "Terry Rogers", "Trey Rhodes"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08c356d1-53a6-445c-bb19-da6ed872c9a2"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "753f7c4bd927dae88deddca18daac7ea0640ee99ebe1f1447f54066e982112ed"
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 792 (2017_18) — Waste management; sunset date for certain solid waste surcharges and hazardous waste fees; extend

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to waste management, so as to extend the sunset date for certain solid waste surcharges and hazardous waste fees; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 — **155–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Randy Nix — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-31** House Hopper
- **2018-02-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 340 `executive-signature`
- **2018-06-30** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08c356d1-53a6-445c-bb19-da6ed872c9a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).