republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-100.md

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Bill	Telephone System for the Physically Impaired; state-wide dual party relay service and audible universal information access service; provisions; change	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1A of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to telephone system for the physically impaired, so as to change certain provisions relating to the establishment, administration, and operation of the state-wide dual party relay service and audible universal information access service; to change certain legislative findings and declarations; to modify the prohibition as to the distribution of telecommunications equipment under the telecommunications equipment distribution program based on a certain income level; to provide that wireless devices and applications may be distributed as part of the telecommunications equipment distribution program; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 100	Georgia SB 100 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Blake Tillery Chuck Hufstetler Frank Ginn Harold Jones II Jack Hill John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Matt Brass P. K. Martin IV Randy Robertson	3	15	1	2019-02-13	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5f62823e-7547-4109-ab34-cfb2db2f1d2c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	60b1dad4ab2589bf1e165c264c79fc7e7ccaf64ad53afb203b237145e6830c58	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 100 (2019_20) — Telephone System for the Physically Impaired; state-wide dual party relay service and audible universal information access service; provisions; change

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1A of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the O.C.G.A., relating to telephone system for the physically impaired, so as to change certain provisions relating to the establishment, administration, and operation of the state-wide dual party relay service and audible universal information access service; to change certain legislative findings and declarations; to modify the prohibition as to the distribution of telecommunications equipment under the telecommunications equipment distribution program based on a certain income level; to provide that wireless devices and applications may be distributed as part of the telecommunications equipment distribution program; 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 36 3816 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB100/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-13 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 259 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f62823e-7547-4109-ab34-cfb2db2f1d2c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).