republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-331.md

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Bill	"Protecting Georgia Businesses and Workers Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum wage law, so as to prohibit the regulation of employee work hours, scheduling, and output by local government entities; to provide for exceptions; to provide for a short title; 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 331	Georgia SB 331 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Carden Summers Jeff Mullis John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Steve Gooch	4	16	1	2022-01-10	2022-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/1e6c3949-b617-48a9-8331-ebd4cfeb6888	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	115d345a56179134a524c3a13569fe79c18cf61d04e115fb0105b8df4b268634	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 331 (2021_22) — "Protecting Georgia Businesses and Workers Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum wage law, so as to prohibit the regulation of employee work hours, scheduling, and output by local government entities; to provide for exceptions; to provide for a short title; 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 4877 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 5105S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 331/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 31–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-10 Senate Hopper
• 2022-01-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-02-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-02-17 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-02-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-22 House Notice to Reconsider
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 Effective Date
• 2022-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-05 Act 823 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1e6c3949-b617-48a9-8331-ebd4cfeb6888. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).