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Georgia General Assembly · SB 256 · Senate Date Signed by Governor (Act 296)

Electric Membership Corporation; disclose certain acquisitions and other information to its members within a certain time frame; require

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Officially: “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... Read the full text

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2025-2026 regular session

Where it is

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Senate Hopper · Feb 25, 2025
Senate Read and Referred · Feb 26, 2025
Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Mar 3, 2025
Senate Read Second Time · Mar 4, 2025
Senate Tabled · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Taken from Table · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Third Read · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Mar 6, 2025
House First Readers · Mar 10, 2025
House Second Readers · Mar 11, 2025
House Committee Favorably Reported · Mar 25, 2025
House Third Readers · Mar 31, 2025
House Passed/Adopted · Mar 31, 2025
Senate Sent to Governor · Apr 7, 2025
Senate Date Signed by Governor · May 14, 2025
Act 296 · May 14, 2025
Effective Date · Jul 1, 2025

The numbers

2
sponsors on the bill

Sponsors

Cowsert, BillMartin, Chuck

Recorded votes

PASSAGEHouse · 2025-03-31 · yea 163, nay 1, notVoting 10, excused 6
PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTESenate · 2025-03-06 · yea 51, nay 2, notVoting 3, excused 0
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the Georgia legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
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