republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-783.md

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Bill	Game and fish; provisions relating to rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; update	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 27 and Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish and to waters of the state, ports, and watercraft, respectively, so as to update provisions relating to rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; to revise provisions relating to the implied consent warning for hunting under the influence cases; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 783	Georgia HB 783 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Bill Hitchens Brian Strickland David Knight Emory Dunahoo Jimmy Pruett Jon Burns	2	17	1	2014-01-21	2014-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e2e40b33-8ab6-41a0-8225-18aa63e7bb95	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d239db34022e224bd598b87903be4d1f08f12ab66b71588ae5632d459f2b6ac3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 783 (2013_14) — Game and fish; provisions relating to rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; update

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 27 and Chapter 7 of Title 52 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish and to waters of the state, ports, and watercraft, respectively, so as to update provisions relating to rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; to revise provisions relating to the implied consent warning for hunting under the influence cases; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 783/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 40 0468/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 167–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• David Knight — primary (person)
• Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
• Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
• Jon Burns — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-21 House Hopper
• 2014-01-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-01-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-20 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-21 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-21 Act 544 executive-signature
• 2014-05-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2e40b33-8ab6-41a0-8225-18aa63e7bb95. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).