republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-191.md

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Bill	Blasting and Excavating Near Utility Facilities; prohibit local governing authorities from adopting ordinances	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to blasting or excavating near utility facilities, so as to prohibit local governing authorities from adopting or enforcing ordinances which mandate marking requirements or standards which are different from those contained in state law or the rules and regulations of certain departments of this state; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 191	Georgia SB 191 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Curt Thompson Ed Harbison Frank Ginn Jack Hill Jeff Mullis Joshua McKoon Lindsey Tippins Rick Jeffares Steve Gooch	6	18	1	2015-03-02	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8079629b-bfcd-4e59-b232-fa2c8f263df5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d36417624f59535bc0013565cb04b60de4fcd8a8758e02fe7afac709afa9d3f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 191 (2015_16) — Blasting and Excavating Near Utility Facilities; prohibit local governing authorities from adopting ordinances

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to blasting or excavating near utility facilities, so as to prohibit local governing authorities from adopting or enforcing ordinances which mandate marking requirements or standards which are different from those contained in state law or the rules and regulations of certain departments of this state; 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. As introduced LC 36 2717 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 2758S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 36 0513 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 36 3021S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 191/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #1 BY SENATOR FROM THE 47TH TO COMMITTEE SUB — 23–23 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Curt Thompson — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-02 Senate Hopper
• 2015-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-13 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-04-02 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 367 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8079629b-bfcd-4e59-b232-fa2c8f263df5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).