republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-469.md

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Bill	Watercraft; certain watercraft to have day and night visual distress signals on board when on coastal waters of Georgia; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions of registration, operation, and sale of watercraft, so as to require certain watercraft to have day and night visual distress signals on board when on coastal waters of Georgia; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 469	Georgia SB 469 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Frank Ginn Freddie Powell Sims Gail Davenport Kim Jackson Lindsey Tippins Matt Brass Nikki Merritt Russ Goodman Tyler Harper	6	15	1	2022-02-07	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/77c8165f-c554-4313-b635-597a439d4419	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	98e72bdc8711746f122a330bce749c60527895e7be5bb4d91978d8ceec382e64	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 469 (2021_22) — Watercraft; certain watercraft to have day and night visual distress signals on board when on coastal waters of Georgia; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions of registration, operation, and sale of watercraft, so as to require certain watercraft to have day and night visual distress signals on board when on coastal waters of Georgia; 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. As introduced LC 51 0069 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 51 0106S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 51 0001 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1A (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 469/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #1A BY THE SENATOR FROM THE 40TH — 24–29 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• Gail Davenport — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Nikki Merritt — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-07 Senate Hopper
• 2022-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-02-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-13 Act 872 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77c8165f-c554-4313-b635-597a439d4419. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).