republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-316.md

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Bill	Bingo; remove the daily permissible prize limitation while preserving the weekly permissible prize limitation	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-12-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to rules and regulations relative to bingo, so as to remove the daily permissible prize limitation while preserving the weekly permissible prize limitation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 316	Georgia SB 316 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Frank Ginn Jeff Mullis Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	7	16	1	2016-02-02	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a6a00361-418b-43d4-b7fc-e35ee39745e6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	215a7ae217b721034c0087401b203aed74cb8773489976ac56855a49ecd2b687	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 316 (2015_16) — Bingo; remove the daily permissible prize limitation while preserving the weekly permissible prize limitation

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-12-60 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to rules and regulations relative to bingo, so as to remove the daily permissible prize limitation while preserving the weekly permissible prize limitation; 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 2942 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor Amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 36 0548 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 36 3065S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 316/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 316/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 39–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-02 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-22 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-14 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-14 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 376 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6a00361-418b-43d4-b7fc-e35ee39745e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).