republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sr-954.md

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Bill	Public Property; granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads; 16 counties	A RESOLUTION authorizing the granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads, and ingress and egress in, on, over, under, upon, across, or through property owned by the State of Georgia in the counties of Bartow, Bulloch, Carroll, Chatham, Columbia, Coweta, DeKalb, Emanuel, Gordon, Henry, Marion, Murray, Paulding, Sumter, Ware, and Whitfield; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SR 954	Georgia SR 954 (2015_16)	resolution		enacted	Burt Jones Charlie Bethel Ed Harbison Greg Kirk Horacena Tate John Kennedy Rick Jeffares Steve Henson	6	22	1	2016-02-10	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/afee425b-8adc-4b31-9dd5-d65e37e825c3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6aef9798ed2a9424b8d1ce42dd0d29c9dbf5db02a06589f16fc24c11aa4fc637	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SR 954 (2015_16) — Public Property; granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads; 16 counties

A RESOLUTION authorizing the granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads, and ingress and egress in, on, over, under, upon, across, or through property owned by the State of Georgia in the counties of Bartow, Bulloch, Carroll, Chatham, Columbia, Coweta, DeKalb, Emanuel, Gordon, Henry, Marion, Murray, Paulding, Sumter, Ware, and Whitfield; to provide for an effective date; 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. Adopted Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 40 1014 (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor Amendment AM 40 0167 (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 1174S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SR 954/AP* (committee substitute) — source
6. SR 954/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPTION — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Horacena Tate — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-10 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-23 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-23 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 House Postponed
• 2016-03-16 House Postponed
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Third Reading Lost failure, reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Reconsidered
• 2016-03-22 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-03-24 House Passed/Adopted Reconsidered Bill/Resolution By Substitute
• 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 Act 533 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/afee425b-8adc-4b31-9dd5-d65e37e825c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).