---
type: "Bill"
title: "Livestock Running at Large or Straying; impounding animals and disposing of impounded animals; change the fees"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to livestock running at large or straying, so as to change the fees for impounding animals and disposing of impounded animals; to provide for an effective date; 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: "SB 362"
citation: "Georgia SB 362 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean Burke", "John Wilkinson", "Lee Anderson", "Sheikh Rahman", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-04"
last_action: "2020-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c09cd114-15cc-46a3-b712-3f261d435781"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d5750630f87215a95870010e801b9181e3bd980b553493447d5f247961b752b6"
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 362 (2019_20) — Livestock Running at Large or Straying; impounding animals and disposing of impounded animals; change the fees

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to livestock running at large or straying, so as to change the fees for impounding animals and disposing of impounded animals; to provide for an effective date; 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 44 1381** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189405.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191497.pdf)
3. **SB362/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193938.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-04** Senate Hopper
- **2020-02-05** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-03-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-03-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-17** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-06-17** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Act 515 `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c09cd114-15cc-46a3-b712-3f261d435781`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).