republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-371.md

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Bill	Department of Transportation Officers; state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to officers in the Department of Transportation, so as to provide for state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; to provide for a definition; to provide that the commissioner of transportation may administer a Georgia Freight Railroad Program; to provide for subprograms within such program; to provide for annual reporting; to provide for standards for expenditure of funds; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 371	Georgia SB 371 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Burt Jones Ed Harbison Gloria Butler Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	15	1	2020-02-05	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/15c9e2c7-2035-41ce-9f05-15708a5de33b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	080e8f7f72d46b9c20f3e43fa418e3ffc56eb08ebfc010d7f448375072afa5b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 371 (2019_20) — Department of Transportation Officers; state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to officers in the Department of Transportation, so as to provide for state investment in railways and railroad facilities and equipment; to provide for a definition; to provide that the commissioner of transportation may administer a Georgia Freight Railroad Program; to provide for subprograms within such program; to provide for annual reporting; to provide for standards for expenditure of funds; 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. As introduced LC 39 2487 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 2538S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB371/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-05 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 594 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15c9e2c7-2035-41ce-9f05-15708a5de33b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).