---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations, partnerships, and associations; multiple-year registrations for certain types of business organizations; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to corporations, partnerships, and associations, so as to provide for multiple-year registrations for certain types of business organizations; to provide for the adoption of rules and regulations by the Secretary of State as necessary to implement such a multiple-year registration process; 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: "HB 87"
citation: "Georgia HB 87 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Brad Raffensperger", "Bruce Williamson", "Jesse Petrea", "Rich Golick", "Tom Kirby"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6a99268-8dc8-45f6-abc9-7dd0d266074e"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "42217a9650e0a5bb6ee88902cb4edbc14e8a164dd7cd674040d5401959666b22"
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 87 (2017_18) — Corporations, partnerships, and associations; multiple-year registrations for certain types of business organizations; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to corporations, partnerships, and associations, so as to provide for multiple-year registrations for certain types of business organizations; to provide for the adoption of rules and regulations by the Secretary of State as necessary to implement such a multiple-year registration process; 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 — **167–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Brad Raffensperger — primary (person)
- Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Rich Golick — primary (person)
- Tom Kirby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** House Hopper
- **2017-01-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** 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`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-01** Act 47 `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/c6a99268-8dc8-45f6-abc9-7dd0d266074e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).