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type: "Bill"
title: "Public utilities; regulation of certain matters pertaining to rural telephone cooperatives; provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 44 and 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property and public utilities and public transportation, respectively, so as to provide for regulation of certain matters pertaining to rural telephone cooperatives; to provide for the donation of abandoned dividends or capital credits by rural telephone cooperatives for certain purposes; to provide for definitions; to provide for venue in proceedings against rural telephone cooperatives; to change certain provisions relating to the bylaws of rural telephone cooperatives; to provide for return of revenues upon the death of a member of a rural telephone cooperative; 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 413"
citation: "Georgia HB 413 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Parsons", "Jon Burns"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f96e1d99-30f2-44b6-9f42-19fc50bd622a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "073545a62deb9cd4cc295c57ad56850f2f88e6a60462acc785a2c2bcd14f53d7"
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 413 (2017_18) — Public utilities; regulation of certain matters pertaining to rural telephone cooperatives; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 44 and 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to property and public utilities and public transportation, respectively, so as to provide for regulation of certain matters pertaining to rural telephone cooperatives; to provide for the donation of abandoned dividends or capital credits by rural telephone cooperatives for certain purposes; to provide for definitions; to provide for venue in proceedings against rural telephone cooperatives; to change certain provisions relating to the bylaws of rural telephone cooperatives; to provide for return of revenues upon the death of a member of a rural telephone cooperative; 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 — **1675** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Don Parsons — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-16** House Hopper
- **2017-02-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-24** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 263 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f96e1d99-30f2-44b6-9f42-19fc50bd622a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).