republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-869.md

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Bill	Professions and businesses; responsibilities of brokers and qualifying brokers to review certain documents; change certain provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 40 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to real estate brokers and salespersons, so as to change certain provisions relating to the responsibilities of brokers and qualifying brokers to review certain documents; to change certain provisions relating to actions that constitute unfair trade practices; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 869	Georgia HB 869 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Brett Harrell Howard Maxwell	4	15	1	2016-01-28	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c5a8a956-6479-40d6-b341-c470f15a59e6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4c70d1a3726a1c98148192058210c6523d7008e4271cd649742b4fe3e5ddf424	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 869 (2015_16) — Professions and businesses; responsibilities of brokers and qualifying brokers to review certain documents; change certain provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 40 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to real estate brokers and salespersons, so as to change certain provisions relating to the responsibilities of brokers and qualifying brokers to review certain documents; to change certain provisions relating to actions that constitute unfair trade practices; 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 869/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 36 2921/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 2976S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 2976S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 170–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Brett Harrell — primary (person)
• Howard Maxwell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 House Hopper
• 2016-02-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-02 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-09 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-17 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-17 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 463 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c5a8a956-6479-40d6-b341-c470f15a59e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).