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type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products; create"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 298"
citation: "Georgia HB 298 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buddy Harden", "James Epps", "Jason Shaw", "Rick Jasperse", "Robert Dickey", "Sam Watson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-11"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e830be05-1a40-4b29-977d-84e84d3c9673"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "18c38bd8d999139746d00816ccb1c4f4165ef5abc6fa3b99ec4085e5cefeb9e0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136352.pdf)
2. **LC 40 0284/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130490.pdf)
3. **LC 40 0335S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132984.pdf)
4. **LC 40 0335S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132598.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e830be05-1a40-4b29-977d-84e84d3c9673`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).