republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-778.md

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Bill	Food service establishments; certain nonprofit charitable entities from regulation; exempt	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-2-370 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to food service establishments, so as to exempt certain nonprofit, charitable entities from regulation; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 778	Georgia HB 778 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Allen Peake James Epps John Pezold Matt Ramsey Robert Dickey Trey Kelley	4	17	1	2014-01-17	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2edd6c0f-261e-41a8-8529-83f36c098624	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d60a42230da8a1dbf98a6b7bd0720eabb28f4447a38f72e362277d9bd3c1f787	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 778 (2013_14) — Food service establishments; certain nonprofit charitable entities from regulation; exempt

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-2-370 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to food service establishments, so as to exempt certain nonprofit, charitable entities from regulation; 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 778/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2330/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 21 2461S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 21 2461S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen Peake — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• John Pezold — primary (person)
• Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-17 House Hopper
• 2014-01-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-20 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-29 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-29 Act 666 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2edd6c0f-261e-41a8-8529-83f36c098624. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).