republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-368.md

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Bill	Government Transparency and Campaign Finance; foreign nationals from contributing to candidates or campaign committees; prohibit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to government transparency and campaign finance, so as to prohibit foreign nationals from contributing to candidates or campaign committees; to prohibit candidates and campaign committees from accepting contributions from foreign nationals; to provide for definitions; to require agents of foreign principals to register with the State Ethics Commissioner; to provide for registration requirements; to require agents of foreign principals to disclose to government agencies and the General Assembly when such agents are advocating on behalf of a foreign principal; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 368	Georgia SB 368 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Brian Strickland Greg Dolezal Lee Anderson Max Burns Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman Sam Watson Shawn Still	4	15	3	2024-01-22	2024-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/d8ac0b09-9738-4eb6-80b3-5423d07c6667	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	82da6b6b73fabac49db44ef4852a92f0a315b7c7d33cb405e41ba767a190775b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 368 (2023_24) — Government Transparency and Campaign Finance; foreign nationals from contributing to candidates or campaign committees; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to government transparency and campaign finance, so as to prohibit foreign nationals from contributing to candidates or campaign committees; to prohibit candidates and campaign committees from accepting contributions from foreign nationals; to provide for definitions; to require agents of foreign principals to register with the State Ethics Commissioner; to provide for registration requirements; to require agents of foreign principals to disclose to government agencies and the General Assembly when such agents are advocating on behalf of a foreign principal; 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 47 2688 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 47 2872S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 368/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #565 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #733 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 161–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #542 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 34–20 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2024-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-08 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-07 Veto V12 executive-veto

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8ac0b09-9738-4eb6-80b3-5423d07c6667. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).