republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-697.md

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Bill	Unsolicited merchandise; solicitors to receive from consumers affirmative assent to continued receipt of certain merchandise following a free trial before charging; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to unsolicited merchandise, so as to require solicitors to receive from consumers affirmative assent to continued receipt of certain merchandise following a free trial before charging; to provide for remedies; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 697	Georgia HB 697 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Buddy Harden David Knight Jon Burns Michael Caldwell Rick Jasperse Tom Kirby	8	16	1	2015-03-31	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a691064e-e412-4c4f-b7be-3261c6c23f27	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2868db50f90d84dbefb7c2f1390c99b0c11349eb81b459d4c31f6d4edb82487a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 697 (2015_16) — Unsolicited merchandise; solicitors to receive from consumers affirmative assent to continued receipt of certain merchandise following a free trial before charging; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to unsolicited merchandise, so as to require solicitors to receive from consumers affirmative assent to continued receipt of certain merchandise following a free trial before charging; to provide for remedies; 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. Floor Amendment AM 40 0152 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 697/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 697/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 0854/a (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 40 1043S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. SCSFA to HB 697 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Floor AM 1 AM 40 0159 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen ctee sub LC 40 1122S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 166–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buddy Harden — primary (person)
• David Knight — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Michael Caldwell — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Tom Kirby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-31 House Hopper
• 2015-04-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-01-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-09 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-09 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-08 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-08 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-22 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 434 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a691064e-e412-4c4f-b7be-3261c6c23f27. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).