republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-430.md

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Bill	COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety; provisions for rebuttable presumptions of risk by claimants in certain COVID-19 liability claims; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 16 of Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to COVID-19 pandemic business safety, so as to revise provisions for rebuttable presumptions of risk by claimants in certain COVID-19 liability claims by repealing certain warning requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 430	Georgia SB 430 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal Jason Anavitarte John F. Kennedy Randy Robertson Steve Gooch	3	15	2	2024-01-30	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/375e1233-818a-49fe-888a-0083ab2844b3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d26a1b6d1d149680c5993c71b3bfcc8709500f733986901d0253bbcc95a3caf6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 430 (2023_24) — COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety; provisions for rebuttable presumptions of risk by claimants in certain COVID-19 liability claims; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 16 of Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to COVID-19 pandemic business safety, so as to revise provisions for rebuttable presumptions of risk by claimants in certain COVID-19 liability claims by repealing certain warning requirements; 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 49 1501 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 430/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #502 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #693 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 146–27 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-31 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-09 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-15 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-08 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-13 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Act 422 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/375e1233-818a-49fe-888a-0083ab2844b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).