republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-338.md

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Bill	Administrative Procedure; agency rule making; modify requirements	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 13 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for administrative procedure, so as to modify requirements for agency rule making; to modify legislative objections to and staying of proposed agency rules; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2017_18	SB 338	Georgia SB 338 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Chuck Payne Chuck Hufstetler David Shafer Ellis Black Fran Millar Frank Ginn Greg Kirk Jeff Mullis John Albers Joshua McKoon Lindsey Tippins Marty Harbin Mike Dugan Steve Gooch William Ligon, Jr.	0	16	1	2018-01-19	2018-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/6b91f4d0-95a9-4b1e-9514-1bc7185c3621	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	59614ca5d36c5d0dab56b215a0d12ebc68b6d2464729f4a2c97105aad5be22c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 338 (2017_18) — Administrative Procedure; agency rule making; modify requirements

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 13 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for administrative procedure, so as to modify requirements for agency rule making; to modify legislative objections to and staying of proposed agency rules; 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 BY SUBSTITUTE AS AMENDED — 37–18 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-19 Senate Hopper
• 2018-01-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2018-02-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2018-02-08 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2018-02-08 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2018-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2018-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2018-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2018-03-27 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2018-03-29 Senate Disagreed House Amend or Sub
• 2018-03-29 House Receded from Amend or Sub
• 2018-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-08 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2018-05-08 Veto V19 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b91f4d0-95a9-4b1e-9514-1bc7185c3621. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).