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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Voluntary Veterans' Preference Employment Policy Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding labor and industrial relations, so as to permit employers to create and use a policy that provides preferential hiring, promoting, or retention to veterans of the armed forces of the United States; to provide for definitions; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 443"
+citation: "Georgia HB 443 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Atwood", "Christian Coomer", "John Meadows", "John Yates", "Katie Dempsey", "Sandra Scott"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-23"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cdc1e1d-2be3-4a24-a9f7-e0af2ac5836b"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d937fec419c2ad6d89f5bf7bc0d1c36a8a590e33503729068b1eb8e1c221359d"
+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 443 (2015_16) — Voluntary Veterans' Preference Employment Policy Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding labor and industrial relations, so as to permit employers to create and use a policy that provides preferential hiring, promoting, or retention to veterans of the armed forces of the United States; to provide for definitions; to provide a short title; 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 443/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153413.pdf)
+2. **LC 43 0085/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148916.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **170–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Atwood — primary (person)
+- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
+- John Meadows — primary (person)
+- John Yates — primary (person)
+- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
+- Sandra Scott — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-23** House Hopper
+- **2015-02-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-27** 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 92 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6cdc1e1d-2be3-4a24-a9f7-e0af2ac5836b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+