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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Professions and businesses; certain advertisements related to plumbing; prohibit"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low-voltage contractors, and utility contractors, so as to prohibit certain advertisements related to plumbing; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "HB 342"
+citation: "Georgia HB 342 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Dale Washburn", "Martin Momtahan", "Rick Jasperse", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-08"
+last_action: "2022-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78cca220-6226-4c47-a81f-ed4f61737d4e"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "b8f755dcbd00631d326c310ed14ad3e091138ef1dae8c516ed46840adc5e7c1e"
+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 342 (2021_22) — Professions and businesses; certain advertisements related to plumbing; prohibit
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low-voltage contractors, and utility contractors, so as to prohibit certain advertisements related to plumbing; 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 342/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/211736.pdf)
+2. **LC 36 4600/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196969.pdf)
+3. **Sen ctee sub LC 50 0218S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200715.pdf)
+4. **Sen ctee sub LC 50 0307S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203747.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **167–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alan Powell — primary (person)
+- Dale Washburn — primary (person)
+- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
+- Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-08** House Hopper
+- **2021-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-22** House Postponed
+- **2021-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2021-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-10** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-08** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2022-04-01** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2022-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-13** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-13** Act 873 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78cca220-6226-4c47-a81f-ed4f61737d4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+