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type: "Bill"
title: "Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority; abolish Upper Oconee Resource Management Commission"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority, approved April 14, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 5123), so as to abolish the Upper Oconee Resource Management Commission; to remove all references to same; to modify the composition of the Authority's Board; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 168"
citation: "Georgia HB 168 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Williams", "Regina Quick", "Spencer Frye", "Terry England", "Tom Kirby", "Tommy Benton"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ace29808-3130-4da1-84f5-779d5e3ec77d"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f612500e7d13dcd8d76394d344718184018ff0710bf4bea9ac3c18bc14468f88"
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 HB 168 (2017_18) — Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority; abolish Upper Oconee Resource Management Commission
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating the Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority, approved April 14, 1994 (Ga. L. 1994, p. 5123), so as to abolish the Upper Oconee Resource Management Commission; to remove all references to same; to modify the composition of the Authority's Board; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1700** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chuck Williams — primary (person)
- Regina Quick — primary (person)
- Spencer Frye — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)
- Tom Kirby — primary (person)
- Tommy Benton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-30** House Hopper
- **2017-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Act 60 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ace29808-3130-4da1-84f5-779d5e3ec77d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).