republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-256.md

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Bill	Electric Membership Corporation; disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electric membership corporations and foreign electric cooperatives, so as to require an electric membership corporation to disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 256	Georgia SB 256 (2025_26)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert	4	17	2	2025-02-25	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/98bb3bba-d878-464c-9b04-076dc8ecb982	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7b04204276edfa719409c8e04d990652af7b4b74bfbb3f45a748d438a9bb07ef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 256 (2025_26) — Electric Membership Corporation; disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electric membership corporations and foreign electric cooperatives, so as to require an electric membership corporation to disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 55 0539 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 55 0571S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 256/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #216 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–2 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #344 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 163–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-25 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2025-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 296 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98bb3bba-d878-464c-9b04-076dc8ecb982. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).