republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-475.md

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Bill	Game and fish; hunting of feral hogs; revise provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, so as to revise provisions relating to the hunting of feral hogs; to revise definitions; to allow for the taking of feral hogs without a hunting license; to remove additional restrictions on the hunting of feral hogs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 475	Georgia HB 475 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Buddy Harden Darlene Taylor John Meadows Jon Burns Terry England Tom McCall	5	16	1	2015-02-24	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/df9dc5f1-5306-4cbc-ab52-9bbd8543c9b9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d6c8532e4a0d1d6cc2b29a53cf206968ca19aced0c44cd0a4da4a32f20633a02	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 475 (2015_16) — Game and fish; hunting of feral hogs; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, so as to revise provisions relating to the hunting of feral hogs; to revise definitions; to allow for the taking of feral hogs without a hunting license; to remove additional restrictions on the hunting of feral hogs; 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 475/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0843/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 0900S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 0900S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 40 0929S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buddy Harden — primary (person)
• Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)
• Tom McCall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 House Hopper
• 2015-02-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 228 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df9dc5f1-5306-4cbc-ab52-9bbd8543c9b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).