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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Contracts; provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 4 of Title 10 and Chapter 1 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to self-service storage facilities and general provisions regarding contracts, respectively, so as to provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty; to update a cross-reference; to provide for definitions; to enhance service member consumer protections under the law to include certain television, video, and audio programming services, internet access services, and health spa services; to provide for conditions; 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 25"
+citation: "Georgia HB 25 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Bill Hitchens", "Dave Belton", "Josh Bonner", "Mike Glanton", "Shaw Blackmon"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-16"
+last_action: "2019-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f71c565c-a59d-4da5-8312-704be8d7975c"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e006049b1326f359b4624221adf683100a60d3b544df34726bedeef241853393"
+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 25 (2019_20) — Contracts; provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 4 of Title 10 and Chapter 1 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to self-service storage facilities and general provisions regarding contracts, respectively, so as to provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty; to update a cross-reference; to provide for definitions; to enhance service member consumer protections under the law to include certain television, video, and audio programming services, internet access services, and health spa services; to provide for conditions; 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 25/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187551.pdf)
+2. **LC 41 1641/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179535.pdf)
+3. **LC 41 1776S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180813.pdf)
+4. **LC 41 1785S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181339.pdf)
+5. **LC 41 1785S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181252.pdf)
+6. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 1966S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185084.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **173–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Al Williams — primary (person)
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Dave Belton — primary (person)
+- Josh Bonner — primary (person)
+- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
+- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-16** House Hopper
+- **2019-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-11** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-02-14** 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`
+- **2019-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-04-23** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-23** Act 39 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f71c565c-a59d-4da5-8312-704be8d7975c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+