republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-998.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Game and fish; effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Natural Resources; change	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to game and fish, so as to change the effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Natural Resources; to revise the implied consent warning for hunting under the influence; to amend Code Section 52-7-12.5 of the O.C.G.A., relating to ordering drug, alcohol, or other substance tests and implied consent notice relative to operation of watercraft, so as to revise the implied consent warning; to amend Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to other state symbols, so as to designate the shoal bass as the official Georgia state riverine sport fish; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 998	Georgia HB 998 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Debbie Buckner John Corbett Steve Tarvin Tom McCall Trey Rhodes	8	19	1	2020-02-24	2020-08-05	openstates	ocd-bill/fdcfad51-2421-44bf-99b7-56bc24fb835b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fdac75065937f6204b8dd63c9bf9212c8d044ad85c4704bad0d2807c2c2ae754	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 998 (2019_20) — Game and fish; effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Natural Resources; change

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 27 of the O.C.G.A., relating to game and fish, so as to change the effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the Board of Natural Resources; to revise the implied consent warning for hunting under the influence; to amend Code Section 52-7-12.5 of the O.C.G.A., relating to ordering drug, alcohol, or other substance tests and implied consent notice relative to operation of watercraft, so as to revise the implied consent warning; to amend Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to other state symbols, so as to designate the shoal bass as the official Georgia state riverine sport fish; to provide for legislative findings; 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.

1. HB 998/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 45 0433/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 45 0442S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 45 0442S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. SCSFA to HB998 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 44 1515S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen floor amend 1 AM 44 0139 (committee substitute) — source
8. Sen floor amend 2 AM 44 0140 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 163–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)
• Steve Tarvin — primary (person)
• Tom McCall — primary (person)
• Trey Rhodes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-24 House Hopper
• 2020-02-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-12 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-12 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-16 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-06-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-23 Senate Third Read Tabled
• 2020-06-23 Senate Taken from Table
• 2020-06-23 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-23 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-25 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2020-07-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 600 executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdcfad51-2421-44bf-99b7-56bc24fb835b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).