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Bill Commerce and trade; commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; provide protections A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to selling and other trade practices, so as to provide protections for commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; to prohibit the deceptive practice of musical performance groups advertising and appearing as the recording group without the recording group's permission or denoting that it is a salute or tribute performance; to provide for definitions; to specify violations; to require certain websites or online services to properly identify third-party commercial recordings or audiovisual works; to provide for definitions; to provide for civil and criminal penalties and causes of action; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2021_22 HB 508 Georgia HB 508 (2021_22)
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Beth Moore
Houston Gaines
Kasey Carpenter
Spencer Frye
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Georgia HB 508 (2021_22) — Commerce and trade; commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; provide protections

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to selling and other trade practices, so as to provide protections for commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; to prohibit the deceptive practice of musical performance groups advertising and appearing as the recording group without the recording group's permission or denoting that it is a salute or tribute performance; to provide for definitions; to specify violations; to require certain websites or online services to properly identify third-party commercial recordings or audiovisual works; to provide for definitions; to provide for civil and criminal penalties and causes of action; to provide for a short title; 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 508/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 36 4672/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1641 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bert Reeves — primary (person)
  • Beth Moore — primary (person)
  • Houston Gaines — primary (person)
  • Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
  • Spencer Frye — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-02-17 House Hopper
  • 2021-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2021-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2022-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2022-03-03 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2022-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2022-03-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2022-04-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2022-04-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2022-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2022-05-02 Act 744 executive-signature
  • 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6a91a30-07c6-415f-bb6e-0f8bbd90e682. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).