republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-381.md

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Bill	"Georgia Food Act"; certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration; confidential and not subject to disclosure; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Georgia Food Act," so as to provide that certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration is deemed confidential and not subject to disclosure; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 381	Georgia SB 381 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Dean Burke Ellis Black John Wilkinson Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Sheikh Rahman	3	15	1	2020-02-18	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/361abddb-2945-48dd-ae18-dea5cf9f1453	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	760146268a194806ea7e4477eaca6560fb5914fe70f1fb31a590b95fab47abe6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 381 (2019_20) — "Georgia Food Act"; certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration; confidential and not subject to disclosure; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Georgia Food Act," so as to provide that certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration is deemed confidential and not subject to disclosure; 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 33 8225 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 381/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-18 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-19 Senate Read and Referred 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
• 2020-06-22 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-26 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-29 Act 517 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/361abddb-2945-48dd-ae18-dea5cf9f1453. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).