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Bill	Fair Business Practices Act; enact offender reentry reforms as recommended by the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10, Article 6 of Chapter 11 of Title 15, Article 3A of Chapter 5 of Title 40, Chapter 2 of Title 42, and Chapter 1 of Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Fair Business Practices Act, delinquency proceedings in juvenile court, suspension of driver's license for certain drug offenses, the Board and Department of Corrections, and general tort provisions, respectively, so as to enact offender reentry reforms as recommended by the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 365	Georgia SB 365 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Butch Miller Cecil Staton Charlie Bethel David Shafer Frank Ginn Hardie Davis Jesse Stone John Crosby Judson Hill Ronnie Chance Tyler Harper William Jackson	7	16	1	2014-02-07	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d720f035-7bfb-4276-b7b2-bd7947da4327	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f71a233451f43a42e7996b4f9c62cb8b6a36b9e2943cfc97141361af86d03902	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 365 (2013_14) — Fair Business Practices Act; enact offender reentry reforms as recommended by the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10, Article 6 of Chapter 11 of Title 15, Article 3A of Chapter 5 of Title 40, Chapter 2 of Title 42, and Chapter 1 of Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Fair Business Practices Act, delinquency proceedings in juvenile court, suspension of driver's license for certain drug offenses, the Board and Department of Corrections, and general tort provisions, respectively, so as to enact offender reentry reforms as recommended by the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform; to provide for related matters; 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 29 5878-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 AM 29 2277 (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 2 AM 29 2287 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 6044S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 365/AP* (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 365/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE AS AMENDED — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Cecil Staton — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Hardie Davis — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Crosby — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Ronnie Chance — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-07 Senate Hopper
• 2014-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2014-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-12 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-18 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-13 Act 476 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d720f035-7bfb-4276-b7b2-bd7947da4327. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).