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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic Beverages; provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits; educational purposes by non-profit museums"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by passenger carriers, nonprofit organizations, and hotels and motels, so as to provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits for educational purposes by non-profit museums; to create a definition of non-profit museum; to provide a permit fee; to provide limitations of such permits; to waive certain alcohol tax and bond requirements for non-profit museums; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "SB 240"
citation: "Georgia SB 240 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hunter Hill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-28"
last_action: "2014-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eca45c99-bd82-43f9-ab85-b5235806e9b4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "c6e87da1948d78e9ecc56ca65bca1b613f20ebd25227c2676b22fd91170d6c51"
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 SB 240 (2013_14) — Alcoholic Beverages; provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits; educational purposes by non-profit museums
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages by passenger carriers, nonprofit organizations, and hotels and motels, so as to provide for the licensing of the production of distilled spirits for educational purposes by non-profit museums; to create a definition of non-profit museum; to provide a permit fee; to provide limitations of such permits; to waive certain alcohol tax and bond requirements for non-profit museums; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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. **As introduced LC 36 2326T** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132900.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/138910.pdf)
3. **LC 36 2537S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142525.pdf)
4. **SB 240/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/145061.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **439** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hunter Hill — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-28** Senate Hopper
- **2013-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-01-24** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-02-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-02-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-03-11** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-03-20** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2014-03-31** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-26** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-26** Act 631 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-26** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eca45c99-bd82-43f9-ab85-b5235806e9b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).