republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-117.md

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Bill	Blasting or Excavating Near Utility Facilities; revise/add definitions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 25 of the O.C.G.A., relating to blasting or excavating near utility facilities, so as to revise and add definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 117	Georgia SB 117 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Frank Ginn Jack Murphy Jeff Mullis Lindsey Tippins Rick Jeffares Ross Tolleson Steve Gooch	4	15	1	2013-02-06	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1008a664-06ba-4cc1-9750-cea63caf2003	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	626920c2200e64786bc9c3f4fe6678084bd57df4bac074433db09cc0f1917d16	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 117 (2013_14) — Blasting or Excavating Near Utility Facilities; revise/add definitions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 25 of the O.C.G.A., relating to blasting or excavating near utility facilities, so as to revise and add definitions; 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 28 6534ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 2774ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. SB117/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jack Murphy — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-06 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-19 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-19 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-07 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-24 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-24 Act 610 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1008a664-06ba-4cc1-9750-cea63caf2003. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).