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Bill Food, drugs, and cosmetics; authorize production and sale of cottage food items with certain exemptions, requirements, and disclosures A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards, labeling, and adulteration of food, so as to authorize the production and sale of cottage food items with certain exemptions, requirements, and disclosures; to provide for definitions; to provide for inspections; to provide for a civil penalty; to provide for conforming changes; to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to prohibit local regulation of cottage food items; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 HB 398 Georgia HB 398 (2025_26)
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FOOD
DRUGS
AND COSMETICS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
enacted
Beth Camp
Brian Prince
Houston Gaines
Katie Dempsey
Leesa Hagan
Matt Reeves
2 15 2 2025-02-11 2025-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/8582f94d-360f-4d44-a426-eb3dabdad7c9 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 6a909e3ec5e3f11f394b922e988ec4a3721f50ba1150ae08e33017c791b99a43 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 398 (2025_26) — Food, drugs, and cosmetics; authorize production and sale of cottage food items with certain exemptions, requirements, and disclosures

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to standards, labeling, and adulteration of food, so as to authorize the production and sale of cottage food items with certain exemptions, requirements, and disclosures; to provide for definitions; to provide for inspections; to provide for a civil penalty; to provide for conforming changes; to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to prohibit local regulation of cottage food items; 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. HB 398/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 44 2976/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • House Vote #140 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1712 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Vote #395 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 542 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Beth Camp — primary (person)
  • Brian Prince — primary (person)
  • Houston Gaines — primary (person)
  • Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
  • Leesa Hagan — primary (person)
  • Matt Reeves — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-11 House Hopper introduction
  • 2025-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2025-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2025-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2025-03-03 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2025-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2025-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2025-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2025-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2025-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-13 Act 193 executive-signature
  • 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8582f94d-360f-4d44-a426-eb3dabdad7c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).