republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-1172.md

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Bill	Water rights; public trust doctrine; remove references	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to water rights, so as to remove references to the public trust doctrine; to provide that members of the public have the right to use all navigable streams as highways and for hunting and fishing; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 1172	Georgia HB 1172 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Al Williams James Burchett Lynn Smith Rob Leverett Trey Rhodes	6	17	4	2024-02-07	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6f6dfb51-4320-4070-a9e8-be61c615af6f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	09512dc06a740e0987dfe0c426a6059da0384e5e663350bf44ceb5659d61dc8f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1172 (2023_24) — Water rights; public trust doctrine; remove references

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to water rights, so as to remove references to the public trust doctrine; to provide that members of the public have the right to use all navigable streams as highways and for hunting and fishing; to provide for statutory construction; 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 1172/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 55 0209/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 55 0233S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 55 0233S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Floor Amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #804 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 34–18 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #803 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 21–31 (fail) · upper
• House Vote #547 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 107–60 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #802 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 17–32 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• James Burchett — primary (person)
• Lynn Smith — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)
• Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-07 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-26 Senate Tabled
• 2024-03-26 Senate Taken from Table
• 2024-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 597 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f6dfb51-4320-4070-a9e8-be61c615af6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).