republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-287.md

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Bill	Environmental Protection Division; Environmental Advisory Council; update reference date to standards, rules, and regulations	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-2-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to Environmental Protection Division, Environmental Advisory Council, duties of council and its members and director, appeal procedures generally, permit applications, and inspections, so as to update the reference date to standards, rules, and regulations; to amend Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, so as to update the reference date to rules and regulations; to amend Code Section 52-7-26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to penalty, so as to update the reference date to rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 287	Georgia HB 287 (2025_26)	bill	CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES GAME AND FISH WATERS PORTS AND WATERCRAFT	enacted	Chas Cannon John Corbett John LaHood Lauren McDonald III Trey Rhodes	2	15	2	2025-02-05	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fb5e37eb-8bfb-4cb3-8f13-ad9dff6513eb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	cdcd5b7988f54ae0fd72781facb233579142fd379938b368b869010569d4e24e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 287 (2025_26) — Environmental Protection Division; Environmental Advisory Council; update reference date to standards, rules, and regulations

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-2-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to Environmental Protection Division, Environmental Advisory Council, duties of council and its members and director, appeal procedures generally, permit applications, and inspections, so as to update the reference date to standards, rules, and regulations; to amend Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, so as to update the reference date to rules and regulations; to amend Code Section 52-7-26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to penalty, so as to update the reference date to rules and regulations; 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 287/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 2970/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #224 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #68 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 171–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chas Cannon — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)
• John LaHood — primary (person)
• Lauren McDonald III — primary (person)
• Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 178 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fb5e37eb-8bfb-4cb3-8f13-ad9dff6513eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).