republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-397.md

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Bill	Real and Personal Property; municipalities to hire state licensed real estate brokers to assist in sale; allow	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 37 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the acquisition and disposition of real and personal property generally, so as to allow municipalities to hire state licensed real estate brokers to assist in the sale of real property; to provide for the duties of the state licensed real estate broker; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2017_18	SB 397	Georgia SB 397 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Butch Miller Chuck Hufstetler Ellis Black Greg Kirk Jack Hill Jesse Stone John Albers John Kennedy Joshua McKoon Mike Dugan William Ligon, Jr.	0	16	1	2018-02-07	2018-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a152118d-1f9c-4656-9d09-e0ce2c6478ff	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2acfd8bd849d4455c30ad41b57376a22a51dc8ddf43096577e74cbc71eaff5ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 397 (2017_18) — Real and Personal Property; municipalities to hire state licensed real estate brokers to assist in sale; allow

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 37 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the acquisition and disposition of real and personal property generally, so as to allow municipalities to hire state licensed real estate brokers to assist in the sale of real property; to provide for the duties of the state licensed real estate broker; 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 — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jack Hill — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-07 Senate Hopper
• 2018-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2018-02-23 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2018-02-23 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2018-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2018-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2018-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2018-03-23 House Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2018-03-29 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2018-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2018-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2018-05-03 Act 363 executive-signature
• 2018-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a152118d-1f9c-4656-9d09-e0ce2c6478ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).