---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unlicensed personal care homes; criminal penalties for owning or operating; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-12.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to unlicensed personal care homes, so as to provide for criminal penalties for owning or operating an unlicensed personal care home; 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 899"
citation: "Georgia HB 899 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Rynders", "Edward Lindsey", "Nikki Randall", "Penny Houston", "Sharon Cooper", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-02-03"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c7198c0-35b8-4bc4-9153-90b348299e6e"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d0eab6b106cd0ebe03fd49981b843c939a1af3e884d1d679b8a1285cb548b074"
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 899 (2013_14) — Unlicensed personal care homes; criminal penalties for owning or operating; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-12.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to unlicensed personal care homes, so as to provide for criminal penalties for owning or operating an unlicensed personal care home; 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 899/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144460.pdf)
2. **HB 899/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141701.pdf)
3. **LC 33 5436/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/138701.pdf)
4. **LC 33 5486S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139916.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **168–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Rynders — primary (person)
- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
- Nikki Randall — primary (person)
- Penny Houston — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-03** House Hopper
- **2014-02-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-02-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-18** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-12** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-24** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-24** Act 615 `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/2c7198c0-35b8-4bc4-9153-90b348299e6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).