republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-445.md

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Bill	Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; water and sewer authorities to be designated as local issuing authorities for land-disturbing activity permits; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of soil erosion and sedimentation, so as to authorize certain water and water and sewer authorities to be designated as local issuing authorities for land-disturbing activity permits; to revise a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 445	Georgia SB 445 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones David Lucas John Kennedy	4	17	1	2020-02-25	2020-07-29	openstates	ocd-bill/3da7badd-f8fd-4471-81a9-5eb1289c8546	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d4008005ce8924601ca021622f2984b2931bb793795cbf60535759c104c4c016	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 445 (2019_20) — Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; water and sewer authorities to be designated as local issuing authorities for land-disturbing activity permits; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of soil erosion and sedimentation, so as to authorize certain water and water and sewer authorities to be designated as local issuing authorities for land-disturbing activity permits; to revise a definition; 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 47 0388 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 44 1508S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB445/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• David Lucas — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-25 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-10 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-23 House Postponed
• 2020-06-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-29 Act 519 executive-signature
• 2020-07-29 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3da7badd-f8fd-4471-81a9-5eb1289c8546. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).