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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to business corporations, so as to provide for benefit corporations; to provide for the application of the Georgia Business Corporation Code; to provide for definitions; to provide for naming; to provide for stock certificates; to provide for amendments and transactions; to provide for duties and limitations of liability of directors of benefit corporations; to provide for annual public benefit reports; to change the definition of a foreign corporation; to change provisions relating to the right to dissent; to change provisions relating to the corporate name of a foreign corporation; 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 230"
+citation: "Georgia HB 230 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Josh McLaurin", "Mary Oliver", "Matthew Gambill", "Matthew Wilson", "Mike Wilensky", "Scott Holcomb"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-08"
+last_action: "2021-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b25ab383-beff-465b-a3de-545bd4ac51cf"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "09619098441310a241031198c963cfd2aaa86f209e17cf40edab1194a6077639"
+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 230 (2019_20) — Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to business corporations, so as to provide for benefit corporations; to provide for the application of the Georgia Business Corporation Code; to provide for definitions; to provide for naming; to provide for stock certificates; to provide for amendments and transactions; to provide for duties and limitations of liability of directors of benefit corporations; to provide for annual public benefit reports; to change the definition of a foreign corporation; to change provisions relating to the right to dissent; to change provisions relating to the corporate name of a foreign corporation; 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. **HB 230/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/195310.pdf)
+2. **LC 48 0037/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180933.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **165–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Josh McLaurin — primary (person)
+- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
+- Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
+- Matthew Wilson — primary (person)
+- Mike Wilensky — primary (person)
+- Scott Holcomb — 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`
+- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-01-29** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2020-06-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2020-06-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-06-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-07-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-07-29** Act 487 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b25ab383-beff-465b-a3de-545bd4ac51cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+