republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-6.md

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Bill	Controlled Substances; determine whether a controlled substance has been adulterated; authorize the use of testing equipment	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-3-22 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other laws unaffected by the "Georgia Drug and Cosmetic Act," so as to authorize the use of testing equipment to determine whether a controlled substance has been adulterated; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 6	Georgia SB 6 (2025_26)	bill	FOOD DRUGS AND COSMETICS	enacted	Ben Watson Brian Strickland Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson Matt Brass Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Sally Harrell	4	15	2	2025-01-14	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e97ac8ce-cb4c-471e-a065-581894a114ec	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1fcabbc6a8e1f5d2c71039a033b84088d3e5cb24ea0378d627f00939cf319c5a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 6 (2025_26) — Controlled Substances; determine whether a controlled substance has been adulterated; authorize the use of testing equipment

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 26-3-22 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other laws unaffected by the "Georgia Drug and Cosmetic Act," so as to authorize the use of testing equipment to determine whether a controlled substance has been adulterated; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 57 0170 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 52 0718S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 6/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #31 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 55–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #283 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 170–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sally Harrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-14 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-15 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-10 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-12 Act 126 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e97ac8ce-cb4c-471e-a065-581894a114ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).