---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professions and businesses; certain advertisements related to plumbing; prohibit"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low-voltage contractors, and utility contractors, so as to prohibit certain advertisements related to plumbing; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 342"
citation: "Georgia HB 342 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Dale Washburn", "Martin Momtahan", "Rick Jasperse", "Trey Kelley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-08"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78cca220-6226-4c47-a81f-ed4f61737d4e"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "b8f755dcbd00631d326c310ed14ad3e091138ef1dae8c516ed46840adc5e7c1e"
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 342 (2021_22) — Professions and businesses; certain advertisements related to plumbing; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 14 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to electrical contractors, plumbers, conditioned air contractors, low-voltage contractors, and utility contractors, so as to prohibit certain advertisements related to plumbing; 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 342/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/211736.pdf)
2. **LC 36 4600/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196969.pdf)
3. **Sen ctee sub LC 50 0218S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200715.pdf)
4. **Sen ctee sub LC 50 0307S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203747.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **167–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Dale Washburn — primary (person)
- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
- Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-08** House Hopper
- **2021-02-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-10** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-22** House Postponed
- **2021-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-10** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2022-04-01** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2022-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-13** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-13** Act 873 `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78cca220-6226-4c47-a81f-ed4f61737d4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).