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Bill	Alcoholic beverages; sale or furnishing to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and sale or possession near or upon the grounds; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prohibited acts relative to the regulation of alcoholic beverages, so as to change certain provisions relating to the sale or furnishing of alcoholic beverages to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and to the sale or possession of alcoholic beverages near or upon the grounds of such hospital; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 85	Georgia HB 85 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brett Harrell James Epps Rusty Kidd	8	16	1	2015-01-26	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/01a832a1-c39c-484a-8e6f-23181ae7d9a5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c1b40ecca813a37c12a58e67577494612f8ae67f9df42a42755b917a0b79bd0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 85 (2015_16) — Alcoholic beverages; sale or furnishing to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and sale or possession near or upon the grounds; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prohibited acts relative to the regulation of alcoholic beverages, so as to change certain provisions relating to the sale or furnishing of alcoholic beverages to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and to the sale or possession of alcoholic beverages near or upon the grounds of such hospital; 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 36 0490 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 85/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 85/FA (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 2597/a (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen fl amend 1 AM 36 0525 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen fl amend 2 AM 36 0524 (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen fl amend 3 AM 36 0527 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen fl amend 4 AM 36 0528 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 150–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brett Harrell — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Rusty Kidd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-26 House Hopper
• 2015-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-25 House Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-04-20 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-04-20 Act 22 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01a832a1-c39c-484a-8e6f-23181ae7d9a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).