---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military; war veterans; change definition"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to war veterans home, so as to change the definition of the term \"war veterans\"; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 322"
citation: "Georgia HB 322 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Jesse Petrea", "John Deffenbaugh", "Johnnie Caldwell, Jr.", "Lee Hawkins", "Terry Rogers"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c411c6af-837a-473a-ae95-bd967c770d42"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "02b4d7015e8c99967047a844cac900fcd84d48b843347332f48fc60c9ea08dfa"
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 322 (2017_18) — Military; war veterans; change definition

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to war veterans home, so as to change the definition of the term "war veterans"; 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 — **170–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- John Deffenbaugh — primary (person)
- Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** House Hopper
- **2017-02-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-28** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 255 `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/c411c6af-837a-473a-ae95-bd967c770d42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).