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type: "Bill"
title: "Buildings and Housing; procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards and requirements for construction, alteration, etc. of buildings and other structures, so as to provide procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers so as to allow applicants to elect whether to retain, at their own expense, a private professional provider to provide required plan reviews or inspections of certain buildings; to provide for fees; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "SB 49"
citation: "Georgia SB 49 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Billy Hickman", "Bo Hatchett", "Bruce Thompson", "Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "Clint Dixon", "Ed Harbison", "Lee Anderson", "Max Burns", "Mike Dugan", "Russ Goodman", "Sheikh Rahman", "Steve Gooch", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56489ed5-f328-4c0f-b85a-c001c2221fa3"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "89b70e1afecf8847c92786946a1e3dd2df5611280a2e63c44094d9b7cf0c36bc"
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 49 (2021_22) — Buildings and Housing; procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards and requirements for construction, alteration, etc. of buildings and other structures, so as to provide procedures for alternative plan review, permitting, and inspection by private professional providers so as to allow applicants to elect whether to retain, at their own expense, a private professional provider to provide required plan reviews or inspections of certain buildings; to provide for fees; 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 introduced LC 36 4531-EC** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196175.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197507.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 36 4614-ECS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197077.pdf)
4. **SB 49/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201906.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **3913** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Billy Hickman — primary (person)
- Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Clint Dixon — primary (person)
- Ed Harbison — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Max Burns — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Russ Goodman — primary (person)
- Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-28** Senate Hopper
- **2021-01-29** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-11** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-02-11** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-02-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2021-03-23** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-03-29** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-04** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Act 165 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56489ed5-f328-4c0f-b85a-c001c2221fa3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).