republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-156.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	Surface Mining; revise a definition	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-4-72 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to surface mining, so as to revise a definition; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 156	Georgia SB 156 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Jack Hill John Wilkinson Ross Tolleson	3	15	1	2013-02-12	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/02a8a132-ff06-4367-baf6-59e512328c0d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7c11c2eb605bd64623d579c00826ca8129124f5fb75d3ee9e15985ca34165012	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 156 (2013_14) — Surface Mining; revise a definition

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-4-72 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to surface mining, so as to revise a definition; 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 40 0267 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 156/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-12 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 183 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/02a8a132-ff06-4367-baf6-59e512328c0d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).