republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-328.md

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Bill	Public utilities; one-time right of way permit fee and reduce annual right of way use fees; establish	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to telephone service general provisions, so as to establish a one-time right of way permit fee and reduce annual right of way use fees as due compensation paid to municipal authorities by telephone companies that do not have retail, end user customers located within the boundaries of the municipal authority; to provide certain notice requirements; to establish a civil penalty; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 328	Georgia HB 328 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Don Parsons Joseph Gullett Lee Hawkins Martin Momtahan	8	20	1	2021-02-08	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bd17a1cc-0059-4e11-9d50-c6071ada828a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d388c18d9a985b08d2a238204c66e86c1cdd58cbc2f379a1b06524acaf17b455	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 328 (2021_22) — Public utilities; one-time right of way permit fee and reduce annual right of way use fees; establish

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to telephone service general provisions, so as to establish a one-time right of way permit fee and reduce annual right of way use fees as due compensation paid to municipal authorities by telephone companies that do not have retail, end user customers located within the boundaries of the municipal authority; to provide certain notice requirements; to establish a civil penalty; 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. Floor Amendment AM 36 0885 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 328/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 4572/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 4647S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 36 4712S/rcs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 AM 36 0872 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen floor amend 3 AM 36 0876 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 119–40 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Don Parsons — primary (person)
• Joseph Gullett — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Martin Momtahan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-08 House Hopper
• 2021-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-03 House Postponed
• 2021-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-29 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-29 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2022-03-03 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2022-03-16 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Act 741 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd17a1cc-0059-4e11-9d50-c6071ada828a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).