republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-899.md

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Bill	Commerce and trade; tobacco product manufacturers; revise and add certain definitions; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapters 13 and 13A of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to tobacco product manufacturers and master settlement agreement enhancements, respectively, so as to revise and add certain definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for responsibilities of cigarette importers and stamping agents; to provide for duties of the Attorney General and the revenue commissioner; to amend Chapter 11 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to taxes on tobacco products, so as to clarify applicability in conjunction with other provisions of law; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 899	Georgia HB 899 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Jan Jones Jay Powell John Meadows Jon Burns Stacey Abrams Terry England	5	17	1	2016-02-03	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3619979d-48a3-4db4-8828-01904da4b74d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	89e622f6819bca2845d165f11f5cc928ed9172c2b94e741841ddc220a91e666e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 899 (2015_16) — Commerce and trade; tobacco product manufacturers; revise and add certain definitions; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapters 13 and 13A of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to tobacco product manufacturers and master settlement agreement enhancements, respectively, so as to revise and add certain definitions; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for responsibilities of cigarette importers and stamping agents; to provide for duties of the Attorney General and the revenue commissioner; to amend Chapter 11 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to taxes on tobacco products, so as to clarify applicability in conjunction with other provisions of law; 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 899/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 34 4784ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 34 4864ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 34 4864ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 34 4920ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 159–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Jay Powell — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-03 House Hopper
• 2016-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-23 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-29 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-16 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2016-03-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-22 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 472 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3619979d-48a3-4db4-8828-01904da4b74d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).