republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-290.md

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Bill	Dog Ownership; allow local governments to confer dog control authority upon multiple individuals	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to responsible dog ownership, so as to allow local governments to confer dog control authority upon multiple individuals; to provide for the hearing of contested cases by superior courts; to require dog owners to pay for reasonable confinement and housing expenses in certain cases; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 290	Georgia SB 290 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Dean Burke John Crosby	5	16	1	2014-01-15	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/63302dba-6444-4d51-bac4-f2692194d8bc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	981b47b6f442d204ce5db6f788dc02d04fab86025d74a07ec3b1c43efcc04e85	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 290 (2013_14) — Dog Ownership; allow local governments to confer dog control authority upon multiple individuals

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to responsible dog ownership, so as to allow local governments to confer dog control authority upon multiple individuals; to provide for the hearing of contested cases by superior courts; to require dog owners to pay for reasonable confinement and housing expenses in certain cases; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 0415 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 29 5841S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6045S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 290/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• John Crosby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-15 Senate Hopper
• 2014-01-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-10 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-18 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-27 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-21 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-21 Act 554 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/63302dba-6444-4d51-bac4-f2692194d8bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).