republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-240.md

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Bill	Alcoholic Beverages; provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits; educational purposes by non-profit museums	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by passenger carriers, nonprofit organizations, and hotels and motels, so as to provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits for educational purposes by non-profit museums; to create a definition of non-profit museum; to provide a permit fee; to provide limitations of such permits; to waive certain alcohol tax and bond requirements for non-profit museums; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 240	Georgia SB 240 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Hunter Hill	4	16	1	2013-02-28	2014-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/eca45c99-bd82-43f9-ab85-b5235806e9b4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c6e87da1948d78e9ecc56ca65bca1b613f20ebd25227c2676b22fd91170d6c51	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 240 (2013_14) — Alcoholic Beverages; provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits; educational purposes by non-profit museums

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by passenger carriers, nonprofit organizations, and hotels and motels, so as to provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits for educational purposes by non-profit museums; to create a definition of non-profit museum; to provide a permit fee; to provide limitations of such permits; to waive certain alcohol tax and bond requirements for non-profit museums; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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. As introduced LC 36 2326T (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 2537S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 240/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 43–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hunter Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-28 Senate Hopper
• 2013-03-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-01-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-01-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-26 Act 631 executive-signature
• 2014-04-26 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eca45c99-bd82-43f9-ab85-b5235806e9b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).