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Bill Fair Business Practices Act; requirements for solicitations of services for obtaining a copy of an instrument conveying real estate; provide A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Fair Business Practices Act, so as to provide for requirements for solicitations of services for obtaining a copy of an instrument conveying real estate; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 HB 197 Georgia HB 197 (2017_18)
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Josh Bonner
Matt Hatchett
Sam Teasley
Trey Kelley
0 16 1 2017-01-31 2017-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/6ad84e96-7d6a-4477-a6be-a6d4bcb67664 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl e1e91bf2ba9fbd312dc5ae8ab437e2adb828a5d7e8a73159bc660b4d9f5c571e 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 197 (2017_18) — Fair Business Practices Act; requirements for solicitations of services for obtaining a copy of an instrument conveying real estate; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Fair Business Practices Act, so as to provide for requirements for solicitations of services for obtaining a copy of an instrument conveying real estate; to provide for a definition; 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.

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1700 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Buzz Brockway — primary (person)
  • Josh Bonner — primary (person)
  • Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
  • Sam Teasley — primary (person)
  • Trey Kelley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-31 House Hopper
  • 2017-02-01 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2017-02-02 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2017-02-09 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-01 House Postponed
  • 2017-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2017-03-03 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2017-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2017-03-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2017-03-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2017-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2017-04-03 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2017-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2017-05-01 Act 67 executive-signature
  • 2017-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ad84e96-7d6a-4477-a6be-a6d4bcb67664. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).