republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-148.md

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Bill	Commerce and Trade; transfer powers and responsibilities of Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs to Attorney General's office	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to commerce and trade, so as to transfer the powers and responsibilities of the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs to the Attorney General's office; to amend Titles 2, 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 36, 43, and 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agriculture, crimes and offenses, debtors and creditors, health, insurance, law enforcement officers and agencies, local government, professions and businesses, and public utilities and public transportation, respectively, so as to conform to such transfer, correct cross-references, and remove obsolete provisions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 148	Georgia SB 148 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Butch Miller Charlie Bethel John Kennedy Mike Dugan P. K. Martin IV William Jackson	4	15	1	2015-02-20	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f7482087-9abf-425f-a405-e516cccfb873	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7af1a3faffbd98df59a0fa7aefbfa25e3cff6234a21fc48bb30e562d56c1cadc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 148 (2015_16) — Commerce and Trade; transfer powers and responsibilities of Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs to Attorney General's office

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to commerce and trade, so as to transfer the powers and responsibilities of the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs to the Attorney General's office; to amend Titles 2, 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 36, 43, and 46 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agriculture, crimes and offenses, debtors and creditors, health, insurance, law enforcement officers and agencies, local government, professions and businesses, and public utilities and public transportation, respectively, so as to conform to such transfer, correct cross-references, and remove 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 0801-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 40 0855ER-ECS (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 148/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 48–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-20 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-27 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 187 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7482087-9abf-425f-a405-e516cccfb873. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).