republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-277.md

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Bill	"Protecting Georgia Small Business Act"; neither a franchisee/franchisee's employee shall be deemed employee of franchisor	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to labor and industrial relations, so as to provide that neither a franchisee nor a franchisee's employee shall be deemed to be an employee of the franchisor for any purpose; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 277	Georgia SB 277 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brad Raffensperger Burt Jones Charlie Bethel Chuck Hufstetler David Shafer Fran Millar Hunter Hill Jeff Mullis Jesse Stone John Albers Joshua McKoon Marty Harbin Michael Williams Mike Crane Steve Gooch Tyler Harper William Ligon, Jr.	5	15	1	2016-01-20	2017-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/17fb41a3-b322-4ceb-ac52-407fd3c86668	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	80c2edc74fdc8a5bc896a54d5e78ccbc9f32e3b4e479cb6bd5dee2b523d96f00	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 277 (2015_16) — "Protecting Georgia Small Business Act"; neither a franchisee/franchisee's employee shall be deemed employee of franchisor

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to labor and industrial relations, so as to provide that neither a franchisee nor a franchisee's employee shall be deemed to be an employee of the franchisor for any purpose; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; 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 36 2899 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 2943S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 36 0543 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 277/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 39–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brad Raffensperger — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• Mike Crane — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-20 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-18 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 526 executive-signature
• 2017-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17fb41a3-b322-4ceb-ac52-407fd3c86668. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).