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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Landlord and tenant; termination of a rental or lease agreement under circumstances involving family violence; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions concerning landlord and tenant, so as to provide for the termination of a rental or lease agreement for residential real estate under circumstances involving family violence; to provide for definitions; to provide for notice and terms of termination; to provide for applicability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 834"
+citation: "Georgia HB 834 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beth Beskin", "John Corbett", "Katie Dempsey", "Mandi Ballinger", "Scott Hilton", "Shaw Blackmon"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b8f04ac-12bd-4ce4-8460-9a2172097465"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "1898e3621dcce838e8ec1446ad445faf1f5cb1012391b6b85284fd758f494475"
+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 834 (2017_18) — Landlord and tenant; termination of a rental or lease agreement under circumstances involving family violence; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions concerning landlord and tenant, so as to provide for the termination of a rental or lease agreement for residential real estate under circumstances involving family violence; to provide for definitions; to provide for notice and terms of termination; to provide for applicability; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **166–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beth Beskin — primary (person)
+- John Corbett — primary (person)
+- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
+- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
+- Scott Hilton — primary (person)
+- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** House Hopper
+- **2018-02-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-07** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-22** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Act 482 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b8f04ac-12bd-4ce4-8460-9a2172097465`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+