republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-549.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Water pollution; establish water emergency response procedures	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of water pollution and surface-water use, so as to establish water emergency response procedures; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 549	Georgia HB 549 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Hitchens Butch Parrish Jan Tankersley Jon Burns Ron Stephens	4	19	1	2013-03-05	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f92201e2-b3ab-4e0a-85e3-ef468b8616ab	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d3ba28bc65d32063b2c900e984e9f12e244877d0a9f8b7563ab75d1ef72aedcc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 549 (2013_14) — Water pollution; establish water emergency response procedures

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of water pollution and surface-water use, so as to establish water emergency response procedures; 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. HB 549/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0354/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 0589S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 0589S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 157–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-03-05 House Hopper
• 2013-03-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-13 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-18 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-18 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 501 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f92201e2-b3ab-4e0a-85e3-ef468b8616ab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).