republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-346.md

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Bill	"Environmental Policy Act"; exempt projects for construction/improvement of public roads from environmental effects reports	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-16-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to the "Environmental Policy Act," so as to exempt projects for the construction or improvement of public roads from environmental effects reports in certain instances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 346	Georgia SB 346 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Jeff Mullis	7	18	1	2016-02-08	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3eaeb0a9-7886-4b54-a2b9-3b3257a21a5c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	31fb506875f63bb4016fb78b32b94216e3ce4c44a869e37af082e7d9c2973c02	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 346 (2015_16) — "Environmental Policy Act"; exempt projects for construction/improvement of public roads from environmental effects reports

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-16-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to the "Environmental Policy Act," so as to exempt projects for the construction or improvement of public roads from environmental effects reports in certain instances; 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 1135 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amendment 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amendment 2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amendment 3 (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 39 1409ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 346/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE — 38–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-29 Senate Tabled
• 2016-02-29 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-02-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-29 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2016-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House 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 339 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3eaeb0a9-7886-4b54-a2b9-3b3257a21a5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).