republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-345.md

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Bill	State Government; state and local governments from mandating vaccine passports; prohibit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding state government, so as to prohibit state and local governments from mandating vaccine passports; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 345	Georgia SB 345 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brandon Beach Bruce Thompson Burt Jones Butch Miller Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Jason Anavitarte Jeff Mullis John Albers Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	5	19	1	2022-01-14	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b465d4c2-1a93-49e9-9a65-d5980ec3a36a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6328cee4200d6eabbf899d66e51b3f5a5e8d1d7c4c747ec1e7257d6fa22ed7c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 345 (2021_22) — State Government; state and local governments from mandating vaccine passports; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding state government, so as to prohibit state and local governments from mandating vaccine passports; to provide for a definition; 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 44 1772 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 52 0104S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 2101S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 345/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 31–19 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-14 Senate Hopper
• 2022-01-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-04 Senate Notice to Reconsider
• 2022-03-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-25 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2022-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-29 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2022-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-03 Act 819 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b465d4c2-1a93-49e9-9a65-d5980ec3a36a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).