2025-2026 Regular Session

HB611

Forever Chemicals Transparency Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of water pollution and surface-water use, so as to require publicly owned treatment works to seek information from industrial users relating to the manufacture or use of PFAS; to provide for definitions; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Natural Resources and Environment
Last status date: February 27, 2025
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Natural Resources and Environment
Author: Eddie Lumsden
Co-sponsors: Bill Hitchens Kasey Carpenter Victor Anderson Buddy DeLoach Devan Seabaugh

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Committee referrals

February 26, 2025 · House

Natural Resources and Environment

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

February 27, 2025
House House Second Readers
February 26, 2025
House House First Readers
February 24, 2025
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1982060
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB611.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00