republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-383.md

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Bill	Public Roads; Roadside Enhancement and Beautification Council; provide for purpose	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the regulation of maintenance and use of public roads, so as to provide for the purpose of the Roadside Enhancement and Beautification Council; to provide for the issuance of permits for the removal or trimming of vegetation on state rights of way when such vegetation obstructs the target viewing zone of a building, sign, or structure upon commercial property; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations for the issuance of such permits; to provide for the department to set standards for applications and fees for such permits; to prohibit the removal or certain types of vegetation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 383	Georgia SB 383 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Ellis Black Frank Ginn Freddie Powell Sims Jeff Mullis Jesse Stone Michael Williams Tommie Williams William Ligon, Jr.	12	16	1	2016-02-16	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/31572b3b-f210-4a9b-8de3-9daf59fcf86c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5962ff9b20f0c04810f5741a4819c52229cd36849f9fa34dba982f02cd805cc6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 383 (2015_16) — Public Roads; Roadside Enhancement and Beautification Council; provide for purpose

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 32 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the regulation of maintenance and use of public roads, so as to provide for the purpose of the Roadside Enhancement and Beautification Council; to provide for the issuance of permits for the removal or trimming of vegetation on state rights of way when such vegetation obstructs the target viewing zone of a building, sign, or structure upon commercial property; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations for the issuance of such permits; to provide for the department to set standards for applications and fees for such permits; to prohibit the removal or certain types of vegetation; 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 1313 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 1357S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment 3 AM 39 0162 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amendment 1 AM 39 0161 (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amendment 1a (committee substitute) — source
7. Floor amendment 1b (committee substitute) — source
8. Floor amendment 2 AM 39 0160 (committee substitute) — source
9. Floor amendment 4 (committee substitute) — source
10. LC 40 1190ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
11. LC 40 1191ERS/hsfs (committee substitute) — source
12. SB 383/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE — 4–33 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-02 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
• 2016-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V16 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/31572b3b-f210-4a9b-8de3-9daf59fcf86c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).