republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-308.md

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Bill	Abandoned Vessels; unattended vessels in public waters; remove certain redundant processes	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to abandoned vessels, so as to remove certain redundant processes regarding unattended vessels in public waters; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 308	Georgia SB 308 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Randy Robertson Tyler Harper Valencia Seay	3	16	1	2020-01-27	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b0fda66d-a150-49ef-ac83-e5db0222c038	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0ddad3f69ce7a196adbb011e265f0dc7145a47b6c625cd97694f491719b9da59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 308 (2019_20) — Abandoned Vessels; unattended vessels in public waters; remove certain redundant processes

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to abandoned vessels, so as to remove certain redundant processes regarding unattended vessels in public waters; 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 48 0157 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 308/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-27 Senate Hopper
• 2020-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-02-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-25 House Postponed
• 2020-06-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-26 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-29 Act 512 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0fda66d-a150-49ef-ac83-e5db0222c038. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).