republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-188.md

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Bill	Professions and businesses; certain military certifications entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide that certain military certifications shall entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; to provide that the spouse of a member of the military living in this state because of the military spouse's assignment shall be entitled to obtain certain professional licenses based upon his or her licensing in another state; to provide for powers and duties of the director of the professional licensing boards division of the Secretary of State; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 188	Georgia HB 188 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Christian Coomer Jan Jones John Yates Robert Dickey Scott Holcomb Terry England	6	15	1	2013-02-01	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/33186434-c05a-43e6-981b-1f5993fc0f50	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	363914092d740ad185ac6b6fdcb819cfa6f5f431dc20dcac8aaf021e023fdf19	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 188 (2013_14) — Professions and businesses; certain military certifications entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide that certain military certifications shall entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; to provide that the spouse of a member of the military living in this state because of the military spouse's assignment shall be entitled to obtain certain professional licenses based upon his or her licensing in another state; to provide for powers and duties of the director of the professional licensing boards division of the Secretary of State; 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 188/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2071/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 21 2150S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 21 2150S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 AM 21 3861 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 1a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Setzler AM 21 3849 — 65–103 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• John Yates — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-01 House Hopper
• 2013-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-03 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-08 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-08 Act 12 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/33186434-c05a-43e6-981b-1f5993fc0f50. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).