republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-119.md

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Bill	Permit Required for Burning Woods, Lands, and Marshes or Other Flammable Vegetation; except certain yard waste from permitting	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-6-90 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permit required for burning woods, lands, marshes, or other flammable vegetation, and exceptions, so as to except certain yard waste from permitting; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 119	Georgia SB 119 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Chuck Payne Dean Burke Frank Ginn Jeff Mullis Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Russ Goodman Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	15	1	2021-02-09	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/626e1fbd-ebb6-472c-8595-1cd2acdd82fa	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	093ed6f95089d3a53f5dac043375808515c8975c64e3699c20adb96763d7caec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 119 (2021_22) — Permit Required for Burning Woods, Lands, and Marshes or Other Flammable Vegetation; except certain yard waste from permitting

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-6-90 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permit required for burning woods, lands, marshes, or other flammable vegetation, and exceptions, so as to except certain yard waste from permitting; 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 44 1600 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 44 1672S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 119/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-09 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-02-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-02-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-02-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-07 Act 258 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/626e1fbd-ebb6-472c-8595-1cd2acdd82fa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).