republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-160.md

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Bill	Employment Security; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 34 of the O.C.G.A., relating to labor and industrial relations, so as to change certain provisions relating to employment security; to extend certain provisions relating to the rate of employer contributions and variations from the standard rate; to provide for administrative assessments on wages; to provide for additional assessments for new or newly covered employers; to authorize the collection of administrative assessments; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 160	Georgia SB 160 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Bo Hatchett Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Frank Ginn John Albers John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Marty Harbin Mike Hodges Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Sam Watson Shawn Still Steve Gooch	4	17	2	2023-02-13	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e814cbf6-4e37-47e4-993f-4824400f2bc5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b607bde5fad194273baa95bde1cfe5da88e450b1c83922801ef75a4a4e2c2e7b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 160 (2023_24) — Employment Security; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 34 of the O.C.G.A., relating to labor and industrial relations, so as to change certain provisions relating to employment security; to extend certain provisions relating to the rate of employer contributions and variations from the standard rate; to provide for administrative assessments on wages; to provide for additional assessments for new or newly covered employers; to authorize the collection of administrative assessments; 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 5450 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 AM 36 0918 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 160/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #321 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 97–68 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #180 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 34–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2023-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2023-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2023-03-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-27 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2023-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-01 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Act 86 executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e814cbf6-4e37-47e4-993f-4824400f2bc5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).