republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-222.md

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Bill	'Local Government 9-1-1 Authority Act'; Local Government 9-1-1 Authority; create	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 36, 45, and 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to local government, public officers and employees, and public utilities and public transportation, respectively, so as to create the Local Government 9-1-1 Authority; to provide for members, powers, duties, authority, and responsibilities; to change certain provisions relating to the remittance of 9-1-1 charges; to provide for payment by service suppliers to the Local Government 9-1-1 Authority; to provide for administrative costs; to provide for legal representation; to provide for penalties and interest for noncompliance; to revise definitions relative to the Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act; to provide for conforming changes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2017_18	SB 222	Georgia SB 222 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Butch Miller Jeff Mullis John Kennedy Renee Unterman Rick Jeffares Tyler Harper	0	15	1	2017-02-21	2017-05-09	openstates	ocd-bill/54cec1a4-bf4b-4960-bf74-c5cfa9105ea2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	427afcbb6699923544897b6885379f13890878dc02e2ed6bd183874fb040c5bb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 222 (2017_18) — 'Local Government 9-1-1 Authority Act'; Local Government 9-1-1 Authority; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 36, 45, and 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to local government, public officers and employees, and public utilities and public transportation, respectively, so as to create the Local Government 9-1-1 Authority; to provide for members, powers, duties, authority, and responsibilities; to change certain provisions relating to the remittance of 9-1-1 charges; to provide for payment by service suppliers to the Local Government 9-1-1 Authority; to provide for administrative costs; to provide for legal representation; to provide for penalties and interest for noncompliance; to revise definitions relative to the Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act; to provide for conforming changes; 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.

Votes

• PASSAGE AS AMENDED — 50–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-21 Senate Hopper
• 2017-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2017-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2017-03-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2017-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2017-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2017-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2017-03-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-30 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2017-03-30 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2017-03-30 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2017-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-09 Veto V9 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54cec1a4-bf4b-4960-bf74-c5cfa9105ea2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).