republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-115.md

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Bill	Natural Resources, Department of; certain notice upon registration of a vessel; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration, operation, and sale of watercraft, so as to provide for certain notice upon registration of a vessel with the Department of Natural Resources; to provide for performance of unattended vessel checks; to authorize restitution to the Department of Natural Resources for the cost of removal, storage, and disposal of abandoned vessels; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 115	Georgia HB 115 (2025_26)	bill	WATERS PORTS AND WATERCRAFT	enacted	Bill Hitchens Buddy DeLoach Jesse Petrea Lehman Franklin Rick Townsend Ron Stephens	4	19	2	2025-01-17	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/244d9dbd-703e-4eff-891e-85166b940d59	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	aff1ad9ee40f380f0fd31b1e008f6229b0a5bb598f8b8048a3fe37460f49ea06	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 115 (2025_26) — Natural Resources, Department of; certain notice upon registration of a vessel; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration, operation, and sale of watercraft, so as to provide for certain notice upon registration of a vessel with the Department of Natural Resources; to provide for performance of unattended vessel checks; to authorize restitution to the Department of Natural Resources for the cost of removal, storage, and disposal of abandoned vessels; 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. HB 115/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 39 4491/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 39 4617S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 4617S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #704 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #80 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Buddy DeLoach — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Lehman Franklin — primary (person)
• Rick Townsend — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2026-01-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-01-12 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2026-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-10 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 434 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/244d9dbd-703e-4eff-891e-85166b940d59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).