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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Transportation; standards for contracts; contract bidding process and award procedure; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to provide for standards for contracts entered into by the Department of Transportation; to provide for a contract bidding process and award procedure; to prohibit camping on portions of the state highway system or property owned by the department; to provide for a definition; to declare property used for camping purposes in violation of such prohibition as contraband; to provide for forfeiture of such property; to provide for applicability; to provide for a penalty; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 445"
citation: "Georgia SB 445 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandon Beach", "Butch Miller", "Frank Ginn", "Mike Dugan", "Steve Gooch"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18cda330-3b5d-4e3a-a3f8-0c980100823c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6947964dea9043a9dbeced88d938d3fd7f41db403f47f3b01efc0bcf7abf4007"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia SB 445 (2017_18) — Department of Transportation; standards for contracts; contract bidding process and award procedure; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to highways, bridges, and ferries, so as to provide for standards for contracts entered into by the Department of Transportation; to provide for a contract bidding process and award procedure; to prohibit camping on portions of the state highway system or property owned by the department; to provide for a definition; to declare property used for camping purposes in violation of such prohibition as contraband; to provide for forfeiture of such property; to provide for applicability; to provide for a penalty; 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 BY SUBSTITUTE — **520** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-15** Senate Hopper
- **2018-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 407 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18cda330-3b5d-4e3a-a3f8-0c980100823c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).