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type: "Bill"
title: "Air Quality; reporting of any unpermitted release of ethylene oxide to the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to air quality, so as to provide for the reporting of any unpermitted release of ethylene oxide to the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources; 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: "SB 426"
citation: "Georgia SB 426 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Brian Strickland", "Donzella James", "Horacena Tate", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Michael 'Doc' Rhett", "Tonya Anderson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-21"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b2c777d-5aac-4d0a-a1ee-a5e212ff323a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4757470dac51fa3000012c5dc6ada717cdc1d7a9d4a1e68d28c0e985c4fa452b"
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 SB 426 (2019_20) — Air Quality; reporting of any unpermitted release of ethylene oxide to the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to air quality, so as to provide for the reporting of any unpermitted release of ethylene oxide to the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources; 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 45 0430EC** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190686.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193095.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 45 0447-ECS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192085.pdf)
4. **Committee sub LC 45 0476-ECS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192530.pdf)
5. **SB426/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194751.pdf)
## Votes
- MOTION TO TABLE THE RULES CALENDAR — **495** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
- Donzella James — primary (person)
- Horacena Tate — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-21** Senate Hopper
- **2020-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-05** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-12** Senate Tabled
- **2020-03-12** Senate Taken from Table
- **2020-03-12** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2020-03-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-06-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-06-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-23** House Postponed
- **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 577 `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/0b2c777d-5aac-4d0a-a1ee-a5e212ff323a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).