republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-350.md

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Bill	Taxation on Consumer Fireworks; dedicate moneys collected; trauma care, fire services, and local public safety purposes	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 13 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to taxation of consumer fireworks, so as to dedicate moneys collected from the excise tax on the sale of consumer fireworks for trauma care, fire services, and local public safety purposes; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date contingent on a certain ratification of the Constitution of Georgia; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 350	Georgia SB 350 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson David Shafer Jeff Mullis John Kennedy Mike Dugan Tyler Harper	4	17	1	2016-02-08	2017-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fe21d9ef-ec5b-4c0f-b63f-ee1eeaa09b93	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3a02ff75f8c9defe4b31987590a3d83ea7ba5131029fcacc22e0bdcf537a5d6c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 350 (2015_16) — Taxation on Consumer Fireworks; dedicate moneys collected; trauma care, fire services, and local public safety purposes

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 13 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to taxation of consumer fireworks, so as to dedicate moneys collected from the excise tax on the sale of consumer fireworks for trauma care, fire services, and local public safety purposes; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date contingent on a certain ratification of the Constitution of Georgia; 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 41 0698 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 0788S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 350/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 52–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-10 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2016-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-26 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
• 2016-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 387 executive-signature
• 2017-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe21d9ef-ec5b-4c0f-b63f-ee1eeaa09b93. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).