---
type: "Bill"
title: "Livestock dealers and auctions; license and surety requirements; update"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to livestock dealers and auctions, so as to update license and surety requirements of livestock dealers and livestock market operators; to provide for publication of duly licensed dealers and operators; to eliminate requirement for submission of certain reports; to correct cross-references and provide for uniformity; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 49"
citation: "Georgia HB 49 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Pirkle", "Dominic LaRiccia", "Rick Jasperse", "Tom McCall"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd912049-a06e-46a3-87e8-60e95fda4db8"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "a19b29f1b89c31988f0b942602362fdd0665312e9952787660039a3f142e994a"
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 49 (2017_18) — Livestock dealers and auctions; license and surety requirements; update

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to livestock dealers and auctions, so as to update license and surety requirements of livestock dealers and livestock market operators; to provide for publication of duly licensed dealers and operators; to eliminate requirement for submission of certain reports; to correct cross-references and provide for uniformity; 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **170–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
- Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
- Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
- Tom McCall — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-11** House Hopper
- **2017-01-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-01** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-17** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Act 42 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd912049-a06e-46a3-87e8-60e95fda4db8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).