republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-66.md

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Bill	"Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act"	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to local government, so as to enact the "Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act"; to streamline the deployment of wireless broadband in the public rights of way; to address any perceived conflicts between this Act and Chapter 66B of Title 36;to provide that nothing in this Act relieves any person of any duties provided for in Chapter 9 of Title 25; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 66	Georgia SB 66 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Brandon Beach Butch Miller David Lucas Frank Ginn Harold Jones II John Albers John Kennedy John Wilkinson Larry Walker, III Matt Brass Mike Dugan Steve Gooch	4	15	1	2019-02-06	2019-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0c34a0da-c739-4167-9013-133308b77caa	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cd2d41b79c7c5619c2c06f115a3db320db3b4f819821e915bcbdfe97ea8b2706	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 66 (2019_20) — "Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act"

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to local government, so as to enact the "Streamlining Wireless Facilities and Antennas Act"; to streamline the deployment of wireless broadband in the public rights of way; to address any perceived conflicts between this Act and Chapter 66B of Title 36;to provide that nothing in this Act relieves any person of any duties provided for in Chapter 9 of Title 25; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; 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 36 3771ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 3821ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 66/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• David Lucas — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-06 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-25 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-25 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 53 executive-signature
• 2019-10-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c34a0da-c739-4167-9013-133308b77caa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).