republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-553.md

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Bill	Watercraft; any person 15 years of age or older to operate a Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3 vessel; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions of registration, operation, and sale of watercraft, so as to authorize any person 15 years of age or older to operate a Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3 vessel on any of the waters of this state if such person meets certain conditions pertaining to licensure, education, and accompaniment by an adult; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 553	Georgia SB 553 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Burt Jones Clint Dixon Elena Parent Harold Jones II John Albers Matt Brass Michelle Au Mike Dugan Randy Robertson	4	15	1	2022-02-24	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/aa28fe35-2d48-497f-b7e7-d12b4dd51f3e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	890237e89d358b65c65451a4024696aa13e12f676908ea452cbb4aa1bd98a0b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 553 (2021_22) — Watercraft; any person 15 years of age or older to operate a Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3 vessel; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions of registration, operation, and sale of watercraft, so as to authorize any person 15 years of age or older to operate a Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3 vessel on any of the waters of this state if such person meets certain conditions pertaining to licensure, education, and accompaniment by an adult; 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 51 0099 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 51 0167S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 553/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Michelle Au — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-24 Senate Hopper
• 2022-02-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-30 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-30 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-09 Act 848 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa28fe35-2d48-497f-b7e7-d12b4dd51f3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).