republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-57.md

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Bill	Solar Power Free-Market Financing Act of 2015; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the generation and distribution of electricity generally, so as to provide for financing of solar technology by retail electric customers for the generation of electric energy to be used on and by property owned or occupied by such customers or to be fed back to the electric service provider; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 57	Georgia HB 57 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Buzz Brockway Ed Setzler Harry Geisinger Karla Drenner Mark Hamilton Mike Dudgeon	2	15	1	2015-01-14	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/146e12b2-46eb-4c7f-8317-55c4137a70a0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6224596a916e8cfa03de425ece27d8f870f2f1ee4ccffa00d5899c8fbc244f9f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 57 (2015_16) — Solar Power Free-Market Financing Act of 2015; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the generation and distribution of electricity generally, so as to provide for financing of solar technology by retail electric customers for the generation of electric energy to be used on and by property owned or occupied by such customers or to be fed back to the electric service provider; 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 57/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 36 2633ER/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
• Ed Setzler — primary (person)
• Harry Geisinger — primary (person)
• Karla Drenner — primary (person)
• Mark Hamilton — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-14 House Hopper
• 2015-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-01-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-09 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-09 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-18 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
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 300 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/146e12b2-46eb-4c7f-8317-55c4137a70a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).