republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-586.md

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Bill	Road Projects; the use of the design-build contracting method by counties; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exercise by counties of power to contract for road projects generally, so as to authorize the use of the design-build contracting method by counties; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations upon such contracting method; to provide for an exception to contract limitations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 586	Georgia SB 586 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Frank Ginn Jason Anavitarte Lindsey Tippins Mike Dugan Steve Gooch	3	15	1	2022-03-02	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2c80ba50-b215-4ace-bbd2-7793914b9dc6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	522e0548b78ca5d43b6694a1482cc2a0c126b06d4a09fafbb542018e64979c40	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 586 (2021_22) — Road Projects; the use of the design-build contracting method by counties; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to exercise by counties of power to contract for road projects generally, so as to authorize the use of the design-build contracting method by counties; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations upon such contracting method; to provide for an exception to contract limitations; 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 39 3328 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 586/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 37–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-02 Senate Hopper
• 2022-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-29 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 851 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c80ba50-b215-4ace-bbd2-7793914b9dc6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).