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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health; restrictions on sale and dispensing of spectacles; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the control of hazardous conditions, preventable diseases, and metabolic disorders, so as to provide for restrictions on the sale and dispensing of spectacles; to provide for definitions; to provide for violations; 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 775"
+citation: "Georgia HB 775 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Earl Ehrhart", "John Meadows"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-01-15"
+last_action: "2016-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60840615-25d5-4bb5-ac7c-f08aab4d0a84"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "cfbdc8031776b063ad9ac2268a3a09c3a698905d6261f5bc8f01739c2e59e594"
+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 775 (2015_16) — Health; restrictions on sale and dispensing of spectacles; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the control of hazardous conditions, preventable diseases, and metabolic disorders, so as to provide for restrictions on the sale and dispensing of spectacles; to provide for definitions; to provide for violations; 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 775/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160788.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 6313/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154689.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 6418S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156790.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 6418S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156305.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **155–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Earl Ehrhart — primary (person)
+- John Meadows — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-01-15** House Hopper
+- **2016-01-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-01-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-02-03** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-08** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-08** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-02-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-15** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-15** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-28** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-03** Act 615 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60840615-25d5-4bb5-ac7c-f08aab4d0a84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+