republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-757.md

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Bill	Domestic relations; religious officials shall not be required to perform marriage ceremonies in violation of their legal right; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to protect religious freedoms; to amend Chapter 3 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to marriage generally, so as to provide that religious officials shall not be required to perform marriage ceremonies in violation of their legal right to free exercise of religion; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to selling and other trade practices, so as to change certain provisions relating to days of rest for employees of business and industry; to protect property owners which are religious institutions against infringement of religious freedom; to define a term; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 757	Georgia HB 757 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Beth Beskin Jay Powell Kevin Tanner Matt Hatchett Paul Battles Randy Nix	10	17	1	2016-01-13	2016-03-28	openstates	ocd-bill/a5a69c89-235c-4037-a314-ca915d3f77c3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	70b154fd4cdfde3e2563e05a0856cb5ea6660d8d806a124fb6857f3f24eacfec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 757 (2015_16) — Domestic relations; religious officials shall not be required to perform marriage ceremonies in violation of their legal right; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to protect religious freedoms; to amend Chapter 3 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to marriage generally, so as to provide that religious officials shall not be required to perform marriage ceremonies in violation of their legal right to free exercise of religion; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to selling and other trade practices, so as to change certain provisions relating to days of rest for employees of business and industry; to protect property owners which are religious institutions against infringement of religious freedom; to define a term; 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. Floor Amendment AM 25 1379 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 757/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 25 6547/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 25 6566S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 25 6566S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 25 6573S (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate Floor AM 1 to AM 25 1379 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate Floor AM 2 to AM 25 1379 (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Floor AM 3 to AM 25 1379 (committee substitute) — source
10. Senate Floor AM 4 to AM 25 1379 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Beskin — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Paul Battles — primary (person)
• Randy Nix — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-13 House Hopper
• 2016-01-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-17 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-19 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2016-02-19 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-19 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-16 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2016-03-16 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-03-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-03-28 Veto V1 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5a69c89-235c-4037-a314-ca915d3f77c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).