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Bill Control of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; denial or nonacceptance of permits; revise provisions A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of soil erosion and sedimentation, so as to revise provisions regarding denial or nonacceptance of permits; to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to provide general provisions for counties and municipalities regarding the acceptance, denial, or nonacceptance of certain permits; to require local issuing authorities to provide rejected permit applicants with a written list of reasons for denial within specified time frames; to provide definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 SB 447 Georgia SB 447 (2025_26)
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BUILDINGS AND HOUSING
CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
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Ben Watson
Bill Cowsert
Carden Summers
Chuck Payne
Clint Dixon
Drew Echols
Frank Ginn
Jason Anavitarte
Jason T. Dickerson
Larry Walker, III
Rick Williams
Russ Goodman
Sam Watson
Shawn Still
7 18 3 2026-02-02 2026-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/728e88d3-d3ab-4bea-8940-741548902740 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl f0496bd43ca184d3efa55869f99ea8fdacbf332105aa1b0f8caf7adef7b2e2a4 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia SB 447 (2025_26) — Control of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation; denial or nonacceptance of permits; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of soil erosion and sedimentation, so as to revise provisions regarding denial or nonacceptance of permits; to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to provide general provisions for counties and municipalities regarding the acceptance, denial, or nonacceptance of certain permits; to require local issuing authorities to provide rejected permit applicants with a written list of reasons for denial within specified time frames; to provide definitions; 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 47 3936 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Committee Sub LC 47 4049S (committee substitute) — source
  4. Committee Sub LC 47 4102S (committee substitute) — source
  5. LC 44 3541S/hss (committee substitute) — source
  6. LC 47 4324S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
  7. SB 447/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #607 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 464 (pass) · upper
  • House Vote #805 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 9572 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Vote #989 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 512 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Ben Watson — primary (person)
  • Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
  • Carden Summers — primary (person)
  • Chuck Payne — primary (person)
  • Clint Dixon — primary (person)
  • Drew Echols — primary (person)
  • Frank Ginn — primary (person)
  • Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
  • Jason T. Dickerson — primary (person)
  • Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
  • Rick Williams — primary (person)
  • Russ Goodman — primary (person)
  • Sam Watson — primary (person)
  • Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-02-02 Senate Hopper introduction
  • 2026-02-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2026-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-02-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2026-02-25 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
  • 2026-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2026-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2026-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2026-03-06 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2026-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2026-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2026-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
  • 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2026-05-11 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2026-05-11 Act 513 executive-signature
  • 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/728e88d3-d3ab-4bea-8940-741548902740. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).