republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-517.md

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Bill	Alcohol; local control of distance requirements of grocery stores and other licensees for retail sale of wine and malt beverages near college campuses; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the regulation of alcoholic beverages generally, so as to provide for local control of distance requirements for grocery stores and other licensees for the retail sale of wine and malt beverages for consumption off the premises only such that grocery stores and other licensees shall be allowed to open in locations near college campuses such as downtown areas, if so permitted by the local governing authority; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 517	Georgia HB 517 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Allen Peake Bruce Williamson Chuck Williams Jan Tankersley Regina Quick Spencer Frye	6	22	1	2013-02-28	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/86e62ba3-ef27-465c-923e-0120c3a1575e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1167ac4a36d6b735108b763975fb537312f05b5edc330fd347c59ce7355cd3fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 517 (2013_14) — Alcohol; local control of distance requirements of grocery stores and other licensees for retail sale of wine and malt beverages near college campuses; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the regulation of alcoholic beverages generally, so as to provide for local control of distance requirements for grocery stores and other licensees for the retail sale of wine and malt beverages for consumption off the premises only such that grocery stores and other licensees shall be allowed to open in locations near college campuses such as downtown areas, if so permitted by the local governing authority; 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 517/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 36 2325/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 2340S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 2340S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 36 2356S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 36 2364S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 156–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen Peake — primary (person)
• Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
• Chuck Williams — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Regina Quick — primary (person)
• Spencer Frye — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-28 House Hopper
• 2013-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-21 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2013-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Tabled
• 2013-03-28 Senate Taken from Table
• 2013-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 294 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86e62ba3-ef27-465c-923e-0120c3a1575e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).