republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-260.md

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Bill	Soil Amendments; exclude from regulation	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 2-12-80 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to promulgation and adoption of rules and regulations and sharing of information, so as to exclude certain soil amendments from regulation; to limit locally adopted buffers and setbacks; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 260	Georgia SB 260 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Tyler Harper	6	20	1	2021-02-25	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9ca8660c-4167-4538-b6c2-2ef566f042fa	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c5bd105a00379c90f5faa4ecc6d2dd1727e07f05df0e9119e3741c4b409aa580	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 260 (2021_22) — Soil Amendments; exclude from regulation

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 2-12-80 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to promulgation and adoption of rules and regulations and sharing of information, so as to exclude certain soil amendments from regulation; to limit locally adopted buffers and setbacks; 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 1690 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 44 1710S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 44 0150 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 44 1739S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 260/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 39–15 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-25 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-08 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-08 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Third Reading Lost failure, reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Reconsidered
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted Reconsidered Bill/Resolution By Substitute
• 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 220 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ca8660c-4167-4538-b6c2-2ef566f042fa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).