republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-17.md

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Bill	Public Utilities and Public Transportation; authorize telephone cooperatives and their broadband affiliates; provide broadband services	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public utilities and public transportation, so as to specifically authorize telephone cooperatives and their broadband affiliates to provide broadband services; to provide for definitions; to authorize certain financing and partnerships for the provision of broadband services; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 17	Georgia SB 17 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Butch Miller Chuck Payne David Lucas Ellis Black Frank Ginn Greg Kirk Jack Hill Jesse Stone John Albers John Wilkinson Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Mike Dugan Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	15	1	2019-01-15	2019-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/a4334d8a-7ae0-4b3a-91d8-752ca327efd6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0cabb34aefb4b83051fd1207a5ec8e53a5602a618f9f84f659e1467bbe282f2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 17 (2019_20) — Public Utilities and Public Transportation; authorize telephone cooperatives and their broadband affiliates; provide broadband services

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public utilities and public transportation, so as to specifically authorize telephone cooperatives and their broadband affiliates to provide broadband services; to provide for definitions; to authorize certain financing and partnerships for the provision of broadband services; to provide for related matters; 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. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 36 3715 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 3819S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 17/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• David Lucas — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-15 Senate Hopper
• 2019-01-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-04-26 Act 52 executive-signature
• 2019-04-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4334d8a-7ae0-4b3a-91d8-752ca327efd6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).