republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-998.md

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Bill	Public utilities; authorize certain Tier 2 local exchange companies to elect to become subject to rate of return regulation	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to telecommunications and competition development, so as to authorize certain Tier 2 local exchange companies to elect to become subject to rate of return regulation; to repeal a limitation on the period of time certain distributions can be made from the Universal Access Fund; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 998	Georgia HB 998 (2025_26)	bill	PUBLIC UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION	enacted	Al Williams Alan Powell Beth Camp Chuck Efstration Rick Jasperse Rob Leverett	6	14	4	2026-01-15	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/2b8edaf1-a34d-4ec2-9a85-1dd5bb0a311d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	242b3a0b6e00d48119ab8cde0f3666f6464a3412f3ca5951f44d483f1a6bfe03	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 998 (2025_26) — Public utilities; authorize certain Tier 2 local exchange companies to elect to become subject to rate of return regulation

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to telecommunications and competition development, so as to authorize certain Tier 2 local exchange companies to elect to become subject to rate of return regulation; to repeal a limitation on the period of time certain distributions can be made from the Universal Access Fund; 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. HB 998/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 56 0458/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 56 0570S/RCS (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 56 0570S/rcs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 56 0055 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Floor Amend 1A AM 56 0056 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #508 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 161–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #732 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 50–2 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #731 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–20 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #730 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 31–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Beth Camp — primary (person)
• Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-15 House Hopper introduction
• 2026-01-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-01-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-01-28 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-02-12 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Act 636 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b8edaf1-a34d-4ec2-9a85-1dd5bb0a311d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).