republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-478.md

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Bill	Outdoor Stewardship; provide for a sunset	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6A of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to outdoor stewardship, so as to provide for a sunset; to raise the percentage of moneys appropriated; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 478	Georgia SB 478 (2025_26)	bill	CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES	enacted	Clint Dixon Drew Echols Jason Anavitarte Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Mike Hodges Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Sam Watson Shawn Still Sheikh Rahman Steve Gooch	4	15	3	2026-02-06	2026-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/10dc93da-fb4d-42ab-ace1-68893d63346d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	579f7f8a36b8e1ebfb2f29129c50247d918f8ed4aefd0899462a0f4e04b7cafb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 478 (2025_26) — Outdoor Stewardship; provide for a sunset

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6A of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to outdoor stewardship, so as to provide for a sunset; to raise the percentage of moneys appropriated; 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 44 3403 (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 44 3535S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 478/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #773 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 163–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #616 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #917 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-06 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-27 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-12 Veto V11 executive-veto

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10dc93da-fb4d-42ab-ace1-68893d63346d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).