republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-301.md

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Bill	Public School Facilities; disallow prohibitions on wood construction in public schools if in compliance with state minimum standard codes	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-261 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum facility requirements for public school facilities, so as to disallow prohibitions on wood construction in public schools if in compliance with state minimum standard codes; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 301	Georgia SB 301 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Earl Carter Fran Millar Mike Crane Ross Tolleson Tommie Williams	3	15	1	2014-01-21	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9d6b69f8-a71e-4fca-aa43-c5def264eb66	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6f57881f463158f8c02b4d4bcadfdf665208150691a524633a316fe2be1d84f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 301 (2013_14) — Public School Facilities; disallow prohibitions on wood construction in public schools if in compliance with state minimum standard codes

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 20-2-261 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum facility requirements for public school facilities, so as to disallow prohibitions on wood construction in public schools if in compliance with state minimum standard codes; 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 0449 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 301/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 39–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Earl Carter — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Mike Crane — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-21 Senate Hopper
• 2014-01-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-06 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 639 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d6b69f8-a71e-4fca-aa43-c5def264eb66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).