republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-299.md

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Bill	Natural Resources; provide flexibility for establishing watershed protection standards	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-2-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to promulgation of minimum standards and procedures for protection of natural resources, environment, and vital areas of the state, so as to provide flexibility for establishing watershed protection standards; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 299	Georgia SB 299 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Burt Jones Butch Miller Frank Ginn Jeff Mullis John Wilkinson Mike Crane Ronnie Chance Ross Tolleson Steve Gooch	5	15	1	2014-01-17	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e401d25e-bdc4-4e64-a052-d7da009685f9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6c0ff23357cde49fd90af475b967df7f597c1c2f4b8f286343f7050e08f27745	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 299 (2013_14) — Natural Resources; provide flexibility for establishing watershed protection standards

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-2-8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to promulgation of minimum standards and procedures for protection of natural resources, environment, and vital areas of the state, so as to provide flexibility for establishing watershed protection standards; 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 40 0463 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 40 0536S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 40 0100ER (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 299/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 46–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Mike Crane — primary (person)
• Ronnie Chance — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-17 Senate Hopper
• 2014-01-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-21 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-06 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-12 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-23 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-23 Act 602 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e401d25e-bdc4-4e64-a052-d7da009685f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).