republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-443.md

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Bill	Voluntary Veterans' Preference Employment Policy Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding labor and industrial relations, so as to permit employers to create and use a policy that provides preferential hiring, promoting, or retention to veterans of the armed forces of the United States; to provide for definitions; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 443	Georgia HB 443 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood Christian Coomer John Meadows John Yates Katie Dempsey Sandra Scott	2	15	1	2015-02-23	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6cdc1e1d-2be3-4a24-a9f7-e0af2ac5836b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d937fec419c2ad6d89f5bf7bc0d1c36a8a590e33503729068b1eb8e1c221359d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 443 (2015_16) — Voluntary Veterans' Preference Employment Policy Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding labor and industrial relations, so as to permit employers to create and use a policy that provides preferential hiring, promoting, or retention to veterans of the armed forces of the United States; to provide for definitions; to provide a short title; 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 443/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 43 0085/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• John Yates — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Sandra Scott — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-23 House Hopper
• 2015-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-09 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Act 92 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6cdc1e1d-2be3-4a24-a9f7-e0af2ac5836b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).