republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-244.md

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Bill	Electric membership corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 4 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to corporate purposes and powers of electric membership corporations, so as to require electric membership corporations to comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 244	Georgia HB 244 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Brett Harrell Calvin Smyre Don Parsons Matt Hatchett Rick Jasperse Ron Stephens	7	22	1	2019-02-11	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3f372bf0-815b-4373-b058-75cf80fc4217	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fd20e6cda2b43f4769a5fd0357cd2b0e737e9d0418736b2dfdff237328000538	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 244 (2019_20) — Electric membership corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 4 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to corporate purposes and powers of electric membership corporations, so as to require electric membership corporations to comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; to provide for definitions; 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. HB 244/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 36 3781/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 3812S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 4208S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 36 4386S/RCS (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 36 4386S/rcs (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen floor amend 1 AM 36 0811 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 116–44 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brett Harrell — primary (person)
• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Don Parsons — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-11 House Hopper
• 2019-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-27 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-03-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-12 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-17 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-06-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-22 Senate Transmitted House
• 2020-06-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 592 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f372bf0-815b-4373-b058-75cf80fc4217. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).