---
type: "Bill"
title: "Outdoor Stewardship; provide for a sunset"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6A of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to outdoor stewardship, so as to provide for a sunset; to raise the percentage of moneys appropriated; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2025_26"
identifier: "SB 478"
citation: "Georgia SB 478 (2025_26)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clint Dixon", "Drew Echols", "Jason Anavitarte", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Larry Walker, III", "Lee Anderson", "Mike Hodges", "Randy Robertson", "Russ Goodman", "Sam Watson", "Shawn Still", "Sheikh Rahman", "Steve Gooch"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-06"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10dc93da-fb4d-42ab-ace1-68893d63346d"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "579f7f8a36b8e1ebfb2f29129c50247d918f8ed4aefd0899462a0f4e04b7cafb"
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 478 (2025_26) — Outdoor Stewardship; provide for a sunset

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6A of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to outdoor stewardship, so as to provide for a sunset; to raise the percentage of moneys appropriated; 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 Passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/244988.pdf)
2. **As introduced LC 44 3403** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/241934.pdf)
3. **LC 44 3535S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/246582.pdf)
4. **SB 478/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/248671.pdf)

## Votes

- House Vote #773 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **163–2** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #616 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **55–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Vote #917 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clint Dixon — primary (person)
- Drew Echols — primary (person)
- Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Mike Hodges — primary (person)
- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
- Russ Goodman — primary (person)
- Sam Watson — primary (person)
- Shawn Still — primary (person)
- Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-06** Senate Hopper `introduction`
- **2026-02-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-24** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2026-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2026-03-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2026-03-27** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2026-03-31** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2026-04-10** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-12** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-12** Veto V11 `executive-veto`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10dc93da-fb4d-42ab-ace1-68893d63346d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).