---
type: "Bill"
title: "Game and fish; full-time military personnel on active duty and dependents be considered residents of state for procuring certain hunting and fishing licenses; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 27-1-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions regarding game and fish, so as to provide that full-time military personnel on active duty and their dependents shall be considered residents of this state for procuring certain hunting and fishing licenses in this state; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 740"
citation: "Georgia HB 740 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Bruce Broadrick", "James Epps", "Jon Burns", "Kevin Tanner", "Tom Dickson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-14"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a040cf5-fe86-4189-bf2f-1a985725fd81"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "8cb95db01d32b2246f0a4d0c4c31fbf17e123501cac5f19fc3790de760c75ad0"
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 740 (2013_14) — Game and fish; full-time military personnel on active duty and dependents be considered residents of state for procuring certain hunting and fishing licenses; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 27-1-2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions regarding game and fish, so as to provide that full-time military personnel on active duty and their dependents shall be considered residents of this state for procuring certain hunting and fishing licenses in this state; 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 740/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142934.pdf)
2. **LC 28 6845/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137444.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **169–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Tom Dickson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-14** House Hopper
- **2014-01-15** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-01-16** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-06** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-06** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-02-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-06** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-07** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-07** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-24** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-15** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-15** Act 485 `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a040cf5-fe86-4189-bf2f-1a985725fd81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).