republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-96.md

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Bill	Official Code of Georgia Annotated; provisions creating certain boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies; update and modernize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various titles of the O.C.G.A., so as to modernize and update provisions creating certain boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 96	Georgia SB 96 (2025_26)	bill	BUILDINGS AND HOUSING CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES	enacted	Ben Watson Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Drew Echols Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman Sam Watson Shawn Still Steve Gooch Timothy Bearden	4	16	3	2025-02-04	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1ecd0bd4-8e18-4726-aa7a-4b29fa066576	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b6ab3d25b6216ff8ad3d99ff6dcaae09fb1bb3684ecea5ee9be56fa1ceaba554	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 96 (2025_26) — Official Code of Georgia Annotated; provisions creating certain boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies; update and modernize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various titles of the O.C.G.A., so as to modernize and update provisions creating certain boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies; to provide for 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 Introduced LC 60 0050-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 60 0140-ECS/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 96/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #69 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 35–18 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #295 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 162–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #309 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-27 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 92 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ecd0bd4-8e18-4726-aa7a-4b29fa066576. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).