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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Roads; provide for definitions relative to advertising"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 32-6-51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to erection, placement, or maintenance of unauthorized structures within rights of way of public roads and authorization of commercial advertisements by a transit agency, so as to provide for definitions relative to advertising; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 307"
citation: "Georgia SB 307 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandon Beach", "Elena Parent", "Gloria Butler", "Steve Gooch", "Tommie Williams"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-01-28"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99f04fd8-e58f-4fa7-a9e7-399faf26fa80"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e8244b34ec1933f5fc67f2e61c8cb012fa914160e9d43888266e995ad3d72dc4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia SB 307 (2015_16) — Public Roads; provide for definitions relative to advertising
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 32-6-51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to erection, placement, or maintenance of unauthorized structures within rights of way of public roads and authorization of commercial advertisements by a transit agency, so as to provide for definitions relative to advertising; 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 39 1168** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155931.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156902.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 39 1194S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156316.pdf)
4. **Floor Amendment 1 AM 39 0178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/161796.pdf)
5. **Floor amend 1 AM 36 0535** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156971.pdf)
6. **LC 39 1389S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160423.pdf)
7. **SB 307/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162286.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **530** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- Tommie Williams — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-01-28** Senate Hopper
- **2016-02-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-04** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-02-09** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-02-09** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-03-16** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-03-24** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2016-03-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2016-03-31** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 340 `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99f04fd8-e58f-4fa7-a9e7-399faf26fa80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).