---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Property; granting of non-exclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads; authorize 10 counties"
description: "A RESOLUTION authorizing the granting of non-exclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads, and ingress and egress in, on, over, under, upon, across, or through property owned by the State of Georgia in Bleckley, Cherokee, Douglas, Evans, Glynn, Hall, Laurens, Rockdale, Upson, and Walton Counties; 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: "SR 229"
citation: "Georgia SR 229 (2017_18)"
classification: ["resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandon Beach", "Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Jack Hill", "Lawrence Walker III", "Tonya Anderson", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-15"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ff381cc-dda5-4aae-87c1-32a89b9dc669"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "1231d9bff2aff2e8dd114c53addf017191713d5c37ac78ac86347932370e06ad"
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 SR 229 (2017_18) — Public Property; granting of non-exclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads; authorize 10 counties

A RESOLUTION authorizing the granting of non-exclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads, and ingress and egress in, on, over, under, upon, across, or through property owned by the State of Georgia in Bleckley, Cherokee, Douglas, Evans, Glynn, Hall, Laurens, Rockdale, Upson, and Walton Counties; 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

- ADOPTION — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Jack Hill — primary (person)
- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-15** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-16** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-24** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-15** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-02** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-02** Act 72 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ff381cc-dda5-4aae-87c1-32a89b9dc669`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).