republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-49.md

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Bill	Buildings and Housing; procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards and requirements for construction, alteration, etc. of buildings and other structures, so as to provide procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers so as to allow applicants to elect whether to retain, at their own expense, a private professional provider to provide required plan reviews or inspections of certain buildings; to provide for fees; 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	2021_22	SB 49	Georgia SB 49 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Bo Hatchett Bruce Thompson Burt Jones Butch Miller Clint Dixon Ed Harbison Lee Anderson Max Burns Mike Dugan Russ Goodman Sheikh Rahman Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	17	1	2021-01-28	2021-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/56489ed5-f328-4c0f-b85a-c001c2221fa3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	89b70e1afecf8847c92786946a1e3dd2df5611280a2e63c44094d9b7cf0c36bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 49 (2021_22) — Buildings and Housing; procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards and requirements for construction, alteration, etc. of buildings and other structures, so as to provide procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers so as to allow applicants to elect whether to retain, at their own expense, a private professional provider to provide required plan reviews or inspections of certain buildings; to provide for fees; 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 4531-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 4614-ECS (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 49/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 39–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2021-01-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-02-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-02-11 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-02-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-22 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2021-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 165 executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56489ed5-f328-4c0f-b85a-c001c2221fa3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).