2023-2024 Regular SessionGeorgia Legislature

HB429: Georgia Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act; prohibit permitting of new municipal solid waste landfills located within 1.5 miles of any perennial stream

Legislative Summary

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Georgia Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act," so as to prohibit the permitting of new municipal solid waste landfills if construction of any portion of such landfill site will be located within a 1.5 mile radius of any perennial stream where the Tallapoosa darter (Etheostoma tallapoosae), a species protected pursuant to Article 5 of Chapter 3 of Title 27, the "Endangered Wildlife Act of 1973," may be found; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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Bill History

2/15/2023
House Hopper
House of Representatives
2/16/2023
House First Readers
House of Representatives
2/21/2023
House Second Readers
House of Representatives

Roll Call Votes

Agree To House Substitute As Amended By Amendment #2: Senate Vote #847
3/28/2024
31
Yea
20
Nay
2
Not Voting
3
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(2/15/2023)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Natural Resources and Environment(House of Representatives)
Sine Die

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text2/15/202310.3 KB