republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-741.md

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Bill	Water resources; issuance of sludge land application permits; revise certain requirements	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to water resources, so as to revise certain requirements related to issuance of sludge land application permits; to require consistency with existing local zoning ordinances; to require that public hearings be held within jurisdiction of the governing authority where the proposed land application site is located; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 741	Georgia HB 741 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Brett Harrell Dan Gasaway Jan Tankersley Jay Powell Kevin Tanner Lynn Smith	5	20	1	2014-01-14	2014-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/4cb8311a-cab4-4213-a682-5bb22fda20f1	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e486a6f12d5dc8a46241ee000a70047f10a93d7ebcedc038290db90c66396c0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 741 (2013_14) — Water resources; issuance of sludge land application permits; revise certain requirements

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to water resources, so as to revise certain requirements related to issuance of sludge land application permits; to require consistency with existing local zoning ordinances; to require that public hearings be held within jurisdiction of the governing authority where the proposed land application site is located; 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. HB 741/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0412/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 0519S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 0519S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 40 0630ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brett Harrell — primary (person)
• Dan Gasaway — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Lynn Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-14 House Hopper
• 2014-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-06 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-12 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 By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-18 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-23 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-23 Act 603 executive-signature
• 2014-04-23 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4cb8311a-cab4-4213-a682-5bb22fda20f1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).