republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-114.md

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Bill	Professions and Businesses; grounds for refusing to grant or revoking a license; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to professions and businesses, so as to revise the grounds for refusing to grant or revoking a license; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 114	Georgia SB 114 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Brian Strickland Burt Jones Butch Miller Carden Summers Chuck Payne Dean Burke Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal Jason Anavitarte John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Matt Brass Max Burns Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	3	15	1	2021-02-09	2021-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/6ee6d9aa-f53c-4543-b5ec-6652b2cca790	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6e0f1fa9a3767443f07ad714b6eba40cc1cb94350be2b0c7eb87601392e9ad05	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 114 (2021_22) — Professions and Businesses; grounds for refusing to grant or revoking a license; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to professions and businesses, so as to revise the grounds for refusing to grant or revoking a license; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 36 4607 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 114/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-09 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 208 executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ee6d9aa-f53c-4543-b5ec-6652b2cca790. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).