republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-103.md

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Bill	Sales of Alcoholic Beverages on Sunday; allow for local authorization; consumption on the premises on Sundays during St. Patrick's Day holiday period	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 3-3-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local authorization and regulation of sales of alcoholic beverages on Sunday, so as to allow for local authorization and regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises on Sundays during the St. Patrick's Day holiday period; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 103	Georgia SB 103 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Lester Jackson	4	17	1	2015-02-11	2015-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c404b892-86da-4f07-92af-06b0e6d0e72c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	decdbf0dde39db6518769a7d39cb215a17e3c2d24737635074339331804d9513	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 103 (2015_16) — Sales of Alcoholic Beverages on Sunday; allow for local authorization; consumption on the premises on Sundays during St. Patrick's Day holiday period

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 3-3-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local authorization and regulation of sales of alcoholic beverages on Sunday, so as to allow for local authorization and regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises on Sundays during the St. Patrick's Day holiday period; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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. As introduced LC 37 1916 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 AM 36 0494 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 103/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE AS AMENDED — 32–19 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Lester Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-11 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-26 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2015-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2015-03-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-11 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2015-03-13 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-03-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-03-13 Act 10 executive-signature
• 2015-03-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c404b892-86da-4f07-92af-06b0e6d0e72c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).