republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-146.md

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Bill	Health, Local Government, and Property; regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 31, 36, and 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, local government, and property, respectively, so as to provide regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the disinterment and reinterment of human remains; to provide definitions; to provide statutory construction; to conform cross-references; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 146	Georgia SB 146 (2025_26)	bill	HEALTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES PROPERTY	enacted	Bo Hatchett Derek Mallow John Albers John F. Kennedy Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman	5	19	2	2025-02-11	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d99b0c93-5f84-4b57-9e62-e2a763773e1d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	8e3bbaa31e416739c911bdf381ed2796d4c1127d99c1c2a745911af78eb5fc7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 146 (2025_26) — Health, Local Government, and Property; regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 31, 36, and 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, local government, and property, respectively, so as to provide regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the disinterment and reinterment of human remains; to provide definitions; to provide statutory construction; to conform cross-references; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 55 0470 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 56 0528S (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee sub LC 55 0532S (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 146/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #774 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 163–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #528 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Derek Mallow — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2026-01-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-01-12 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-09 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-09 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-27 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 486 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d99b0c93-5f84-4b57-9e62-e2a763773e1d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).