republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-358.md

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Bill	State Symbols; muscadine grape as the official state grape; designate	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state symbols, so as to designate the muscadine grape as the official state grape; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 358	Georgia SB 358 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Dean Burke Ellis Black Freddie Sims Larry Walker, III Tyler Harper Zahra Karinshak	4	16	1	2020-02-03	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b1190dcd-d25d-4154-9cda-32bf38e4a496	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5c9da139683bd518d9b26582043257f25b06be0ef1a26d6440e84dccdbf95558	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 358 (2019_20) — State Symbols; muscadine grape as the official state grape; designate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state symbols, so as to designate the muscadine grape as the official state grape; 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. As introduced LC 45 0376 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 358/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 50–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Freddie Sims — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-03 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-24 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-10 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-19 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 598 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1190dcd-d25d-4154-9cda-32bf38e4a496. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).