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type: "Bill"
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title: "Electric Membership Corporation; disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; require"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electric membership corporations and foreign electric cooperatives, so as to require an electric membership corporation to disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2025_26"
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identifier: "SB 256"
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citation: "Georgia SB 256 (2025_26)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bill Cowsert"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-02-25"
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last_action: "2025-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98bb3bba-d878-464c-9b04-076dc8ecb982"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "7b04204276edfa719409c8e04d990652af7b4b74bfbb3f45a748d438a9bb07ef"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia SB 256 (2025_26) — Electric Membership Corporation; disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; require
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 3 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electric membership corporations and foreign electric cooperatives, so as to require an electric membership corporation to disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **As Passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235658.pdf)
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2. **As introduced LC 55 0539** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/233838.pdf)
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3. **Committee sub LC 55 0571S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/234733.pdf)
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4. **SB 256/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238423.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Senate Vote #216 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **51–2** (pass) · upper
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- House Vote #344 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **163–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-25** Senate Hopper `introduction`
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- **2025-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-04** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-06** Senate Tabled
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- **2025-03-06** Senate Taken from Table
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- **2025-03-06** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-06** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2025-03-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2025-03-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-31** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-31** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2025-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-14** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-14** Act 296 `executive-signature`
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- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98bb3bba-d878-464c-9b04-076dc8ecb982`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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