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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Property; granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads; 16 counties"
description: "A RESOLUTION authorizing the granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads, and ingress and egress in, on, over, under, upon, across, or through property owned by the State of Georgia in the counties of Bartow, Bulloch, Carroll, Chatham, Columbia, Coweta, DeKalb, Emanuel, Gordon, Henry, Marion, Murray, Paulding, Sumter, Ware, and Whitfield; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SR 954"
citation: "Georgia SR 954 (2015_16)"
classification: ["resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burt Jones", "Charlie Bethel", "Ed Harbison", "Greg Kirk", "Horacena Tate", "John Kennedy", "Rick Jeffares", "Steve Henson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-02-10"
last_action: "2016-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afee425b-8adc-4b31-9dd5-d65e37e825c3"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6aef9798ed2a9424b8d1ce42dd0d29c9dbf5db02a06589f16fc24c11aa4fc637"
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 SR 954 (2015_16) — Public Property; granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads; 16 counties
A RESOLUTION authorizing the granting of nonexclusive easements for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities, utilities, roads, and ingress and egress in, on, over, under, upon, across, or through property owned by the State of Georgia in the counties of Bartow, Bulloch, Carroll, Chatham, Columbia, Coweta, DeKalb, Emanuel, Gordon, Henry, Marion, Murray, Paulding, Sumter, Ware, and Whitfield; to provide for an effective date; 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. **Adopted Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158555.pdf)
2. **As introduced LC 40 1014** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158554.pdf)
3. **Floor Amendment AM 40 0167** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/161713.pdf)
4. **LC 40 1174S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159856.pdf)
5. **SR 954/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162504.pdf)
6. **SR 954/HCSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/161783.pdf)
## Votes
- ADOPTION — **530** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
- Ed Harbison — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Horacena Tate — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-02-10** Senate Hopper
- **2016-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-02-23** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-02-23** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-02-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-10** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2016-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-15** House Postponed
- **2016-03-16** House Postponed
- **2016-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-03-22** House Third Reading Lost `failure, reading-3`
- **2016-03-22** House Reconsidered
- **2016-03-22** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2016-03-24** House Passed/Adopted Reconsidered Bill/Resolution By Substitute
- **2016-03-24** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2016-04-04** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-03** Act 533 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/afee425b-8adc-4b31-9dd5-d65e37e825c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).