republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-904.md

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Bill	Labor and industrial relations; employment security; change certain contribution rates and credits	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employment security, so as to change certain contribution rates and credits; to change certain provisions relating to rate of employer contributions; to extend certain provisions relating to variations in the standard rate; to extend provisions relating to administrative assessments; to reduce the percentage of the administrative assessment to be assessed for a certain period; to provide exceptions; to change certain provisions relating to additional assessments for a new or newly covered employer; to extend the provision relating to automatic repeal; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 904	Georgia HB 904 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Barry Fleming Bob Bryant Brian Strickland Jason Shaw Tom Kirby	4	25	1	2016-02-03	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ef4093ef-db73-454d-9885-83ac394b289c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9f6a1df31037baa9664df4a8ab1fe0b6d6ab81995d966d44aba3d460d7114564	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 904 (2015_16) — Labor and industrial relations; employment security; change certain contribution rates and credits

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employment security, so as to change certain contribution rates and credits; to change certain provisions relating to rate of employer contributions; to extend certain provisions relating to variations in the standard rate; to extend provisions relating to administrative assessments; to reduce the percentage of the administrative assessment to be assessed for a certain period; to provide exceptions; to change certain provisions relating to additional assessments for a new or newly covered employer; to extend the provision relating to automatic repeal; 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 904/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 36 2914/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 3095S/CCR (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 3096S/CCR (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 172–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barry Fleming — primary (person)
• Bob Bryant — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Jason Shaw — primary (person)
• Tom Kirby — 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
• 2016-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-24 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2016-03-24 House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-24 Senate Insisted
• 2016-03-24 House Insisted
• 2016-03-24 House Conference Committee Appointed 111th, 121st, 16th
• 2016-03-24 Senate Conference Committee Appointed 9th, 13th, 29th
• 2016-03-24 Senate Conference Committee Appointed #2 29th, 13th, 9th
• 2016-03-24 House Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2016-03-25 Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2016-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 474 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef4093ef-db73-454d-9885-83ac394b289c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).