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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Distilled spirits; referendum election be held prior to issuance of licenses to manufacture; remove requirement"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to distilled spirits, so as to remove the requirement that a referendum election be held prior to the issuance of licenses for the manufacture of distilled spirits; to change certain provisions relating to the procedures for calling and conducting certain referendum elections and nullifications thereof; 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: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 485"
+citation: "Georgia HB 485 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Howard Maxwell", "Mike Glanton"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-23"
+last_action: "2017-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d22f071-974b-4232-9cb6-bce4744aa6ae"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d075a132f417aafdfd5dd9a30f46a9d88bee1870037b9023d8200931d042b297"
+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 485 (2017_18) — Distilled spirits; referendum election be held prior to issuance of licenses to manufacture; remove requirement
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to distilled spirits, so as to remove the requirement that a referendum election be held prior to the issuance of licenses for the manufacture of distilled spirits; to change certain provisions relating to the procedures for calling and conducting certain referendum elections and nullifications thereof; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **147–23** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alan Powell — primary (person)
+- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
+- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-23** House Hopper
+- **2017-02-23** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Tabled
+- **2017-03-30** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2017-03-30** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Act 277 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d22f071-974b-4232-9cb6-bce4744aa6ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+