republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-278.md

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Bill	Public Employee Hazardous Chemical Protection and Rights to Know Act of 1988; transfer responsibility to Safety Fire Commissioner; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 22 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Public Employee Hazardous Chemical Protection and Right to Know Act of 1988," so as to transfer responsibility under such chapter to the Safety Fire Commissioner; to define certain terms; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for the provision of certain information relative to hazardous materials to the commissioner; to provide for grievances and judicial review; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 278	Georgia HB 278 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	David Clark Heath Clark Jeff Jones Jimmy Pruett Timothy Barr Wes Cantrell	4	15	1	2015-02-09	2016-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8a13611d-2706-4628-a55b-f0b4e82cabf3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	76af197473d17058582f610ee01f9819cf41df4e268903a6c463f7bd48b13ac8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 278 (2015_16) — Public Employee Hazardous Chemical Protection and Rights to Know Act of 1988; transfer responsibility to Safety Fire Commissioner; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 22 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the "Public Employee Hazardous Chemical Protection and Right to Know Act of 1988," so as to transfer responsibility under such chapter to the Safety Fire Commissioner; to define certain terms; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for the provision of certain information relative to hazardous materials to the commissioner; to provide for grievances and judicial review; 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 278/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 3596/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 21 3728S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 21 3728S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Clark — primary (person)
• Heath Clark — primary (person)
• Jeff Jones — primary (person)
• Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
• Timothy Barr — primary (person)
• Wes Cantrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-09 House Hopper
• 2015-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 137 executive-signature
• 2016-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a13611d-2706-4628-a55b-f0b4e82cabf3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).