republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-153.md

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Bill	Official Code of Georgia Annotated; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact the statutory portion of said Code	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact the statutory portion of said Code, as amended, in furtherance of the work of the Code Revision Commission; to repeal portions of said Code, or Acts in amendment thereof, which have become obsolete, have been declared to be unconstitutional, or have been preempted or superseded by subsequent laws; to codify principles of law derived from decisions of the state Supreme Court; to provide for other matters relating to revision, reenactment, and publication of said Code; to provide for effect in event of conflicts; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 153	Georgia SB 153 (2025_26)	bill	AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS AND HOUSING COMMERCE AND TRADE	enacted	Bill Cowsert Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Elena Parent Harold Jones II John F. Kennedy	4	16	3	2025-02-12	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0060be63-3f86-4120-a18c-93a783731cb5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	396a49b481851717f91c8e8a5dd748e6095949e8940061846c50e88512cfc8a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 153 (2025_26) — Official Code of Georgia Annotated; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact the statutory portion of said Code

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact the statutory portion of said Code, as amended, in furtherance of the work of the Code Revision Commission; to repeal portions of said Code, or Acts in amendment thereof, which have become obsolete, have been declared to be unconstitutional, or have been preempted or superseded by subsequent laws; to codify principles of law derived from decisions of the state Supreme Court; to provide for other matters relating to revision, reenactment, and publication of said Code; to provide for effect in event of conflicts; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 39 4444 (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 39 4674S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 153/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #310 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 50–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #110 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #288 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 169–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-20 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-27 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 371 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0060be63-3f86-4120-a18c-93a783731cb5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).