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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Conservation and natural resources; regulate the harvest and sale of palmetto berries"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to forest resources and other plant life, so as to regulate the harvest and sale of palmetto berries; to provide for definitions; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for certificates of harvest; to provide for records of harvest activities and purchase transactions; to provide for prohibited acts; to provide for stop sale, stop use, and removal orders; to provide for seizure of berries; to provide for home or personal use of berries; to provide for penalties and restitution; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 966"
+citation: "Georgia HB 966 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Clay Pirkle", "James Burchett", "Jason Ridley", "John Corbett", "Tom McCall", "Trey Rhodes"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-02-20"
+last_action: "2020-08-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0fd99ce-361b-4c39-9bf5-8e372d1d2ef0"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "eb21cc14b27a43414bf8f48b9013dd8a11f59d54c4aba926015bb4b88afb28d7"
+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 966 (2019_20) — Conservation and natural resources; regulate the harvest and sale of palmetto berries
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to forest resources and other plant life, so as to regulate the harvest and sale of palmetto berries; to provide for definitions; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for certificates of harvest; to provide for records of harvest activities and purchase transactions; to provide for prohibited acts; to provide for stop sale, stop use, and removal orders; to provide for seizure of berries; to provide for home or personal use of berries; to provide for penalties and restitution; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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.
+
+1. **HB 966/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/195228.pdf)
+2. **LC 44 1428/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190431.pdf)
+3. **LC 45 0446S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191943.pdf)
+4. **LC 45 0446S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191065.pdf)
+5. **Sen ctee sub LC 47 0577S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193756.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **125–42** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
+- James Burchett — primary (person)
+- Jason Ridley — primary (person)
+- John Corbett — primary (person)
+- Tom McCall — primary (person)
+- Trey Rhodes — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-20** House Hopper
+- **2020-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2020-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-06-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2020-06-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2020-06-19** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2020-06-25** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2020-07-02** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-08-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-08-05** Act 571 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-08-05** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0fd99ce-361b-4c39-9bf5-8e372d1d2ef0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+