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type: "Bill"
title: "Electric membership corporations; comply with certain requirements in determining the rates for attachments to utility poles by communications service providers; require"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 244"
citation: "Georgia HB 244 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Harrell", "Calvin Smyre", "Don Parsons", "Matt Hatchett", "Rick Jasperse", "Ron Stephens"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f372bf0-815b-4373-b058-75cf80fc4217"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "fd20e6cda2b43f4769a5fd0357cd2b0e737e9d0418736b2dfdff237328000538"
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 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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194585.pdf)
2. **LC 36 3781/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181054.pdf)
3. **LC 36 3812S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182401.pdf)
4. **LC 36 4208S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189443.pdf)
5. **LC 36 4386S/RCS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193297.pdf)
6. **LC 36 4386S/rcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193255.pdf)
7. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 36 0811** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194345.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f372bf0-815b-4373-b058-75cf80fc4217`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).