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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Professions and businesses; certain military certifications entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; provide"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide that certain military certifications shall entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; to provide that the spouse of a member of the military living in this state because of the military spouse's assignment shall be entitled to obtain certain professional licenses based upon his or her licensing in another state; to provide for powers and duties of the director of the professional licensing boards division of the Secretary of State; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2013_14"
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identifier: "HB 188"
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citation: "Georgia HB 188 (2013_14)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Christian Coomer", "Jan Jones", "John Yates", "Robert Dickey", "Scott Holcomb", "Terry England"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2013-02-01"
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last_action: "2013-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33186434-c05a-43e6-981b-1f5993fc0f50"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "363914092d740ad185ac6b6fdcb819cfa6f5f431dc20dcac8aaf021e023fdf19"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 188 (2013_14) — Professions and businesses; certain military certifications entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; provide
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide that certain military certifications shall entitle persons to obtain certain professional licenses in this state; to provide that the spouse of a member of the military living in this state because of the military spouse's assignment shall be entitled to obtain certain professional licenses based upon his or her licensing in another state; to provide for powers and duties of the director of the professional licensing boards division of the Secretary of State; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 188/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136502.pdf)
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2. **LC 21 2071/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/129583.pdf)
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3. **LC 21 2150S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133563.pdf)
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4. **LC 21 2150S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131942.pdf)
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5. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 21 3861** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136193.pdf)
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6. **Sen floor amend 1a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135910.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Setzler AM 21 3849 — **65–103** (fail) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
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- Jan Jones — primary (person)
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- John Yates — primary (person)
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- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
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- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
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- Terry England — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2013-02-01** House Hopper
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- **2013-02-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2013-02-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2013-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2013-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2013-03-05** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2013-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2013-03-12** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2013-03-13** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2013-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2013-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2013-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2013-04-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2013-04-08** Act 12 `executive-signature`
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- **2013-07-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33186434-c05a-43e6-981b-1f5993fc0f50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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