republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-375.md

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Bill	Cigarettes and Tobacco Related Products; additional penalties regarding any person under 21 years of age; provide; definition of vapor product; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sale or distribution to, or possession by, minors of cigarettes and tobacco related products, so as to provide for additional penalties regarding any person under 21 years of age and vapor products; to revise the definition of vapor product; to provide for seizure by law enforcement of any cigarettes, tobacco products, tobacco related objects, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products sold to and in the possession of any person under 21 years of age; to provide for fine and penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 375	Georgia SB 375 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Butch Miller Dean Burke Jeff Mullis John Albers John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Mike Dugan Renee Unterman Steve Gooch	6	18	1	2020-02-07	2020-07-22	openstates	ocd-bill/f036b075-7550-475c-8229-36519caa3b7a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9e0be81abc37aab4f8943f3f9da9a95eb2bf7788844659ff90bc46bb814e3855	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 375 (2019_20) — Cigarettes and Tobacco Related Products; additional penalties regarding any person under 21 years of age; provide; definition of vapor product; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sale or distribution to, or possession by, minors of cigarettes and tobacco related products, so as to provide for additional penalties regarding any person under 21 years of age and vapor products; to revise the definition of vapor product; to provide for seizure by law enforcement of any cigarettes, tobacco products, tobacco related objects, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products sold to and in the possession of any person under 21 years of age; to provide for fine and penalties; 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 48 0167 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 4363S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 36 0797 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 43 1695S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB375/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE THE RULES CALENDAR — 49–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-07 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Senate Tabled
• 2020-03-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2020-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-06-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-26 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-22 Act 483 executive-signature
• 2020-07-22 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f036b075-7550-475c-8229-36519caa3b7a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).