republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-298.md

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Bill	Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products; create	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agricultural commodities promotion, so as to create the Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products; to provide for the operation and function of the commodity commission; to amend Code Section 2-8-10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to nonapplicability of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to exclude the Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products from the provisions of such article; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 298	Georgia HB 298 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Buddy Harden James Epps Jason Shaw Rick Jasperse Robert Dickey Sam Watson	4	17	1	2013-02-11	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e830be05-1a40-4b29-977d-84e84d3c9673	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	18c38bd8d999139746d00816ccb1c4f4165ef5abc6fa3b99ec4085e5cefeb9e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 298 (2013_14) — Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to agricultural commodities promotion, so as to create the Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products; to provide for the operation and function of the commodity commission; to amend Code Section 2-8-10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to nonapplicability of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to exclude the Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products from the provisions of such article; 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 298/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0284/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 40 0335S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 40 0335S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buddy Harden — primary (person)
• James Epps — primary (person)
• Jason Shaw — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-11 House Hopper
• 2013-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-22 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2013-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-01 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-18 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-18 Act 21 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e830be05-1a40-4b29-977d-84e84d3c9673. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).