republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-840.md

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Bill	Conservation and natural resources; rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; change provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 12 and Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to conservation and natural resources and game and fish, respectively, so as to change provisions relating to rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; to authorize the grant of wildlife exhibition permits for use by the film industry; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 840	Georgia HB 840 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Butch Parrish Gerald Greene Lynn Smith Ron Stephens Tom McCall	4	15	1	2016-01-26	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/64393a55-60ac-4077-ba55-a89208571b74	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6d6a183002d1bc60b3ba50fcaa1f60643860106eb998c73d873665cd6f305248	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 840 (2015_16) — Conservation and natural resources; rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; change provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 12 and Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to conservation and natural resources and game and fish, respectively, so as to change provisions relating to rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; to authorize the grant of wildlife exhibition permits for use by the film industry; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 840/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 1034/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 1061S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 1061S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 155–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Gerald Greene — primary (person)
• Lynn Smith — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Tom McCall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-26 House Hopper
• 2016-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-03 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-08 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-08 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 456 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64393a55-60ac-4077-ba55-a89208571b74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).