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Bill	State Purchasing; prohibit the state from entering into certain contracts unless such contracts contain a certification; does not presently conduct a boycott of Israel	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general authority, duties, and procedure relative to state purchasing, so as to prohibit the state, including all of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, from entering into certain contracts with an individual or company unless such contracts contain a certification that such individual or company does not presently conduct a boycott of Israel and will not conduct such a boycott for the duration of such contract; to exclude certain contracts from these requirements; to provide for definitions; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 327	Georgia SB 327 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bruce Thompson Hunter Hill Joshua McKoon Judson Hill Mike Crane William Ligon, Jr.	4	16	1	2016-02-03	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/46d33836-3bc7-45fd-ac42-a4b84566d925	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a720b4d027edb6e1051ac96c95003f61cfd47d81f91f40515c9db209ae8dbb85	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 327 (2015_16) — State Purchasing; prohibit the state from entering into certain contracts unless such contracts contain a certification; does not presently conduct a boycott of Israel

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general authority, duties, and procedure relative to state purchasing, so as to prohibit the state, including all of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, from entering into certain contracts with an individual or company unless such contracts contain a certification that such individual or company does not presently conduct a boycott of Israel and will not conduct such a boycott for the duration of such contract; to exclude certain contracts from these requirements; to provide for definitions; 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 43 0280ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 0381ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 327/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 45–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Hunter Hill — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Mike Crane — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-03 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-02 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 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 378 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46d33836-3bc7-45fd-ac42-a4b84566d925. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).