republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-2.md

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Bill	Public Utilities and Public Transportation; electric membership corporations and their affiliates; authorize; broadband services; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public utilities and public transportation, so as to specifically authorize electric membership corporations and their affiliates to provide broadband services; to provide for definitions; to authorize certain financing and partnerships for the provision of broadband services; to prohibit cross-subsidization between the provision of broadband services and an electric membership corporation's natural gas activities or electricity services activities; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 2	Georgia SB 2 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Butch Miller Chuck Payne David Lucas Ellis Black Frank Ginn Greg Kirk Jack Hill Jesse Stone John Albers John Wilkinson Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Mike Dugan Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	9	18	1	2018-12-21	2019-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/c20a7623-d267-4b8b-9921-bc4468d50783	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d0d029b62da8246c2fa625893c815cad08859fa7d1277a5a1882f8a6f48a6256	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 2 (2019_20) — Public Utilities and Public Transportation; electric membership corporations and their affiliates; authorize; broadband services; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public utilities and public transportation, so as to specifically authorize electric membership corporations and their affiliates to provide broadband services; to provide for definitions; to authorize certain financing and partnerships for the provision of broadband services; to prohibit cross-subsidization between the provision of broadband services and an electric membership corporation's natural gas activities or electricity services activities; to provide for related matters; 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. As introduced LC 36 3714 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 36 3843S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 4011ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 36 4028ERS/hrs (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 2 Prefile LC 36 3714 (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 2/AP* (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen floor amend 1 AM 36 0748 (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen floor amend 2 AM 36 0751 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• David Lucas — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-21 Senate Prefiled introduction
• 2019-01-15 Senate Hopper
• 2019-01-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-28 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2019-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-04-26 Act 51 executive-signature
• 2019-04-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c20a7623-d267-4b8b-9921-bc4468d50783. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).