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type: "Bill"
title: "Game and fish; provisions relating to rules and regulations used to establish criminal violations; update"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 783"
citation: "Georgia HB 783 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Brian Strickland", "David Knight", "Emory Dunahoo", "Jimmy Pruett", "Jon Burns"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-01-21"
last_action: "2014-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2e40b33-8ab6-41a0-8225-18aa63e7bb95"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d239db34022e224bd598b87903be4d1f08f12ab66b71588ae5632d459f2b6ac3"
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 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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144980.pdf)
2. **LC 40 0468/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137709.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1670** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2e40b33-8ab6-41a0-8225-18aa63e7bb95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).