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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adulteration and Misbranding of Food; Commissioner of Agriculture to issue a variance to certain rules and regulations; authorize"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 26, relating to the adulteration and misbranding of food, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to issue a variance or waiver to certain rules and regulations of the department; 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: "SB 78"
+citation: "Georgia SB 78 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Greg Kirk", "John Wilkinson", "Lee Anderson", "Tyler Harper"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-01-26"
+last_action: "2017-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a71c536-ec1d-4f9d-b621-f94b8ade9383"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "12a9892737b239411893bf62db420ccdaa867e4196bed7663e3dbb7d44e4cac5"
+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 78 (2017_18) — Adulteration and Misbranding of Food; Commissioner of Agriculture to issue a variance to certain rules and regulations; authorize
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 26, relating to the adulteration and misbranding of food, so as to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to issue a variance or waiver to certain rules and regulations of the department; 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 — **53–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Ellis Black — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
+- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
+- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-26** Senate Hopper
+- **2017-01-30** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-08** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-15** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-09** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-09** 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 233 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a71c536-ec1d-4f9d-b621-f94b8ade9383`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+