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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Food service establishments; certain nonprofit charitable entities from regulation; exempt"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-2-370 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to food service establishments, so as to exempt certain nonprofit, charitable entities from regulation; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 778"
+citation: "Georgia HB 778 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen Peake", "James Epps", "John Pezold", "Matt Ramsey", "Robert Dickey", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-01-17"
+last_action: "2014-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2edd6c0f-261e-41a8-8529-83f36c098624"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d60a42230da8a1dbf98a6b7bd0720eabb28f4447a38f72e362277d9bd3c1f787"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 778 (2013_14) — Food service establishments; certain nonprofit charitable entities from regulation; exempt
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-2-370 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to food service establishments, so as to exempt certain nonprofit, charitable entities from regulation; 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 778/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144979.pdf)
+2. **LC 21 2330/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137637.pdf)
+3. **LC 21 2461S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141179.pdf)
+4. **LC 21 2461S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140323.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **170–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen Peake — primary (person)
+- James Epps — primary (person)
+- John Pezold — primary (person)
+- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
+- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-01-17** House Hopper
+- **2014-01-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-06** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-20** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-29** Act 666 `executive-signature`
+- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2edd6c0f-261e-41a8-8529-83f36c098624`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+