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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Unlicensed personal care homes; criminal penalties for owning or operating; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-12.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to unlicensed personal care homes, so as to provide for criminal penalties for owning or operating an unlicensed personal care home; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 899"
+citation: "Georgia HB 899 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ed Rynders", "Edward Lindsey", "Nikki Randall", "Penny Houston", "Sharon Cooper", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-02-03"
+last_action: "2014-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c7198c0-35b8-4bc4-9153-90b348299e6e"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d0eab6b106cd0ebe03fd49981b843c939a1af3e884d1d679b8a1285cb548b074"
+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 899 (2013_14) — Unlicensed personal care homes; criminal penalties for owning or operating; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-12.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to unlicensed personal care homes, so as to provide for criminal penalties for owning or operating an unlicensed personal care home; 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 899/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144460.pdf)
+2. **HB 899/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141701.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 5436/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/138701.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 5486S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139916.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **168–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ed Rynders — primary (person)
+- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
+- Nikki Randall — primary (person)
+- Penny Houston — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-02-03** House Hopper
+- **2014-02-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2014-02-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2014-02-18** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2014-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2014-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-12** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2014-03-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2014-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2014-04-24** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2014-04-24** Act 615 `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/2c7198c0-35b8-4bc4-9153-90b348299e6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+