republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-274.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Game and fish; regulate practice of falconry	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licenses, permits, and stamps for hunting, trapping, or fishing, so as to regulate the practice of falconry; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 274	Georgia HB 274 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Butch Parrish Jan Tankersley Jimmy Pruett Jon Burns Richard Smith Ron Stephens	4	15	1	2013-02-08	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c807250d-7864-4dd1-a177-2bf4efca9dba	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1c17d9025588b71b9cc083525ca35b16b86fbcc54d0e552bf01d3e9f764ae374	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 274 (2013_14) — Game and fish; regulate practice of falconry

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licenses, permits, and stamps for hunting, trapping, or fishing, so as to regulate the practice of falconry; 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 274/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0260/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 0286S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 0286S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-08 House Hopper
• 2013-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 264 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c807250d-7864-4dd1-a177-2bf4efca9dba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).