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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Professional engineers and land surveyors; defense, aviation, space or aerospace companies from complying with provisions; exempt"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional engineers and land surveyors, so as to exempt defense, aviation, space, or aerospace companies and those who work for them and who provide engineering for certain products or services from complying with the provisions of said chapter; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 18"
+citation: "Georgia HB 18 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Atwood", "Bill Hitchens", "Bill Werkheiser", "Jason Spencer", "Jimmy Pruett", "Ron Stephens"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2014-12-03"
+last_action: "2015-05-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e8779cd-0815-40e3-b0d3-4dd6e59465ef"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "8b62ea2175377b58d7812f28a7d22ee35187dffe8ff72f8dcbfc5a164674dde2"
+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 18 (2015_16) — Professional engineers and land surveyors; defense, aviation, space or aerospace companies from complying with provisions; exempt
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional engineers and land surveyors, so as to exempt defense, aviation, space, or aerospace companies and those who work for them and who provide engineering for certain products or services from complying with the provisions of said chapter; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 18/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152260.pdf)
+2. **LC 36 2602/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145533.pdf)
+3. **LC 36 2602/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145185.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **155–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Atwood — primary (person)
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Bill Werkheiser — primary (person)
+- Jason Spencer — primary (person)
+- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
+- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-12-03** House Prefiled `introduction`
+- **2015-01-15** House Hopper
+- **2015-01-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-01-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-02-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-02** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-05** Act 63 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-05** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e8779cd-0815-40e3-b0d3-4dd6e59465ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+