---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food service establishments; certain nonprofit charitable entities from regulation; exempt"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-2-370 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to food service establishments, so as to exempt certain nonprofit, charitable entities from regulation; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 778"
citation: "Georgia HB 778 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen Peake", "James Epps", "John Pezold", "Matt Ramsey", "Robert Dickey", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-17"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2edd6c0f-261e-41a8-8529-83f36c098624"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d60a42230da8a1dbf98a6b7bd0720eabb28f4447a38f72e362277d9bd3c1f787"
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 778 (2013_14) — Food service establishments; certain nonprofit charitable entities from regulation; exempt

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-2-370 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to food service establishments, so as to exempt certain nonprofit, charitable entities from regulation; 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 778/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144979.pdf)
2. **LC 21 2330/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137637.pdf)
3. **LC 21 2461S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141179.pdf)
4. **LC 21 2461S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140323.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **170–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen Peake — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- John Pezold — primary (person)
- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-17** House Hopper
- **2014-01-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-02-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-06** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-20** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-29** Act 666 `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/2edd6c0f-261e-41a8-8529-83f36c098624`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).