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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Georgia Hemp Farming Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to agriculture, so as to enact the \"Georgia Hemp Farming Act\"; to provide for unlawfulness of certain acts; to authorize certain academic research of hemp; to provide for licensing and permit requirements for hemp growers and hemp processors, respectively; to provide for the Department of Agriculture to enter into agreements regarding such testing and other matters;to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to schedules, offenses, and penalties regarding regulation of controlled substances, so as to revise the definition of the term \"marijuana\"; to provide an exception to the scheduling of tetrahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid as controlled substances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 213"
+citation: "Georgia HB 213 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carl Gilliard", "Jimmy Pruett", "John Corbett", "Matthew Wilson", "Robert Dickey", "Tom McCall"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-08"
+last_action: "2019-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80daa25a-2ad8-4d3e-b1c1-f48124a1687e"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "78ec5546730c63391dd9eb5a053bb87915a1069bf8ba3362df34b1dff29afe72"
+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 213 (2019_20) — Georgia Hemp Farming Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to agriculture, so as to enact the "Georgia Hemp Farming Act"; to provide for unlawfulness of certain acts; to authorize certain academic research of hemp; to provide for licensing and permit requirements for hemp growers and hemp processors, respectively; to provide for the Department of Agriculture to enter into agreements regarding such testing and other matters;to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to schedules, offenses, and penalties regarding regulation of controlled substances, so as to revise the definition of the term "marijuana"; to provide an exception to the scheduling of tetrahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid as controlled substances; 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. **Floor Amendment AM 44 0121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186440.pdf)
+2. **HB 213/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187562.pdf)
+3. **LC 44 1041/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180853.pdf)
+4. **LC 44 1131S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183046.pdf)
+5. **LC 44 1131S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182164.pdf)
+6. **Sen ctee sub LC 44 1250S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185146.pdf)
+7. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185986.pdf)
+8. **Sen floor amend 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185987.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **163–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carl Gilliard — primary (person)
+- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
+- John Corbett — primary (person)
+- Matthew Wilson — primary (person)
+- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
+- Tom McCall — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-08** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-20** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-27** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-02-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-10** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-10** Act 314 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-10** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80daa25a-2ad8-4d3e-b1c1-f48124a1687e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+