republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-112.md

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Bill	Wildlife; general hunting provisions; prohibit the removal, transportation; game animal or game bird carcasses	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 27 of the O.C.G.A.d, relating to general hunting provisions, so as to prohibit the removal, transportation, storage, or processing of game animal or game bird carcasses except in compliance with applicable harvest recording and reporting laws and regulations of the Board of Natural Resources; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions relative to game and fish, so as to update provisions relating to applicability of regulations establishing criminal violations; to amend Part 2 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to deer hunting, so as to repeal obsolete provisions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 112	Georgia SB 112 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Curt Thompson Dean Burke Ellis Black Frank Ginn Freddie Powell Sims Greg Kirk Jack Hill Jeff Mullis John Wilkinson Lindsey Tippins Rick Jeffares Ross Tolleson Tommie Williams Tyler Harper	3	15	1	2015-02-12	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/93b3bc1e-c3c7-4e72-a661-c5decd57e955	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b552562f74fd3ae1802c0b4c033de078fa1252fb7e065538c0040c2112e57640	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 112 (2015_16) — Wildlife; general hunting provisions; prohibit the removal, transportation; game animal or game bird carcasses

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 27 of the O.C.G.A.d, relating to general hunting provisions, so as to prohibit the removal, transportation, storage, or processing of game animal or game bird carcasses except in compliance with applicable harvest recording and reporting laws and regulations of the Board of Natural Resources; to amend Chapter 1 of Title 27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions relative to game and fish, so as to update provisions relating to applicability of regulations establishing criminal violations; to amend Part 2 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to deer hunting, so as to repeal obsolete provisions; 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. As introduced LC 40 0769 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 112/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 49–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Curt Thompson — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Freddie Powell Sims — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Ross Tolleson — primary (person)
• Tommie Williams — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-12 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-02 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-08 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 177 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93b3bc1e-c3c7-4e72-a661-c5decd57e955. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).