---
type: "Bill"
title: "Packaging, Labeling and Registration of Organic Products and Certifying Entities; registration requirement; eliminate"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 2-21-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to packaging and labeling and registration of organic products and certifying entities, so as to eliminate a registration requirement; 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: "SB 69"
citation: "Georgia SB 69 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellis Black", "Greg Kirk", "John Wilkinson", "Lee Anderson", "Steve Gooch"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31b3e1fe-3849-4894-bfbd-34f9efa2fa72"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "269197341e880ee26208be1cb480bb04f24fb19363c34dd500916f402898543c"
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 SB 69 (2017_18) — Packaging, Labeling and Registration of Organic Products and Certifying Entities; registration requirement; eliminate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 2-21-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to packaging and labeling and registration of organic products and certifying entities, so as to eliminate a registration requirement; 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 — **53–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-25** Senate Hopper
- **2017-01-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-09** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-09** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 232 `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/31b3e1fe-3849-4894-bfbd-34f9efa2fa72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).