---
type: "Bill"
title: "Livestock; liability protection for certain activities; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to animals, so as to provide for liability protection for certain activities related to livestock; to provide for limitations; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 50"
citation: "Georgia HB 50 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clay Pirkle", "Dominic LaRiccia", "Rick Jasperse", "Terry England", "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/2e758339-3465-4822-a12b-27766f6cdc10"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d4489a02c9ce7e4fe218cb1f5ca6b131f2b6b880145a87b417ffb16d29a45ea0"
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 50 (2017_18) — Livestock; liability protection for certain activities; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to animals, so as to provide for liability protection for certain activities related to livestock; to provide for limitations; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 — **164–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
- Dominic LaRiccia — primary (person)
- Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
- Terry England — 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`
- **2017-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-06** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Act 43 `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/2e758339-3465-4822-a12b-27766f6cdc10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).