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Bill	Auctioneers; relative to auctioneers and auction business; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to auctioneers, so as to change certain provisions relative to auctioneers and the auction business; to provide and change certain definitions applicable to the licensing of auctioneers and those engaged in the business of auctioning; to eliminate the authority for the Georgia Auctioneers Commission to issue apprentice auctioneer licenses and remove any references to such licenses; to provide for gender neutrality; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 1042	Georgia HB 1042 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Al Williams Brooks Coleman Josh Clark Katie Dempsey Sam Teasley Sam Watson	5	18	1	2014-02-19	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c6f4bac9-ed46-4266-b761-ba49377008cf	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0d8588aad2eb2103d882e4c278e34765e88c7ded10af3ae26acc0ead9a2af89f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1042 (2013_14) — Auctioneers; relative to auctioneers and auction business; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to auctioneers, so as to change certain provisions relative to auctioneers and the auction business; to provide and change certain definitions applicable to the licensing of auctioneers and those engaged in the business of auctioning; to eliminate the authority for the Georgia Auctioneers Commission to issue apprentice auctioneer licenses and remove any references to such licenses; to provide for gender neutrality; 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 1042/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 36 2503/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 2523S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 2523S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 36 2544S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 158–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Josh Clark — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Sam Teasley — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 House Hopper
• 2014-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-13 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 By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-27 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-15 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-15 Act 535 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6f4bac9-ed46-4266-b761-ba49377008cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).