republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-307.md

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Bill	Public Roads; provide for definitions relative to advertising	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 32-6-51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to erection, placement, or maintenance of unauthorized structures within rights of way of public roads and authorization of commercial advertisements by a transit agency, so as to provide for definitions relative to advertising; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 307	Georgia SB 307 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Elena Parent Gloria Butler Steve Gooch Tommie Williams	7	17	1	2016-01-28	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/99f04fd8-e58f-4fa7-a9e7-399faf26fa80	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e8244b34ec1933f5fc67f2e61c8cb012fa914160e9d43888266e995ad3d72dc4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 307 (2015_16) — Public Roads; provide for definitions relative to advertising

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 32-6-51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to erection, placement, or maintenance of unauthorized structures within rights of way of public roads and authorization of commercial advertisements by a transit agency, so as to provide for definitions relative to advertising; 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 39 1168 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 1194S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment 1 AM 39 0178 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1 AM 36 0535 (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 39 1389S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 307/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-09 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-09 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-16 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 340 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/99f04fd8-e58f-4fa7-a9e7-399faf26fa80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).