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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Alcoholic Beverages; regulations; provisions; annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; change"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alcoholic beverages, so as to change certain provisions relating to the regulation of alcoholic beverages; to change provisions relating to certain annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 226"
+citation: "Georgia SB 226 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "David Lucas", "Frank Ginn", "Jack Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "Renee Unterman", "Rick Jeffares", "Steve Henson"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-21"
+last_action: "2017-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/257952e9-6791-470f-a10d-68ffb9c57793"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "87d1f24d4cf1cf55dd97e8ff1321ec775d982fc1b1088309dfd8a6cef7d01509"
+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 SB 226 (2017_18) — Alcoholic Beverages; regulations; provisions; annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; change
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alcoholic beverages, so as to change certain provisions relating to the regulation of alcoholic beverages; to change provisions relating to certain annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 BY SUBSTITUTE — **50–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Burt Jones — primary (person)
+- Butch Miller — primary (person)
+- David Lucas — primary (person)
+- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
+- Jack Hill — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+- Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
+- Steve Henson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-21** Senate Hopper
+- **2017-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-04-03** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Act 273 `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/257952e9-6791-470f-a10d-68ffb9c57793`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+