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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Forest Resources; shorten the legal season for harvesting ginseng"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-6-152 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prohibited acts regarding harvesting ginseng, so as to shorten the legal season for harvesting ginseng; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Georgia SB 81 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank Ginn", "John Wilkinson", "Steve Gooch"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-01-30"
last_action: "2013-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71609d65-8111-4d56-bfce-9022370fcc92"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "52efed388c9d1248e482ffce2434e8b2d7d75fa0cfa3e30566f3a3f69d75e04f"
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 81 (2013_14) — Forest Resources; shorten the legal season for harvesting ginseng
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 12-6-152 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prohibited acts regarding harvesting ginseng, so as to shorten the legal season for harvesting ginseng; to provide for 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 40 0232** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/129189.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/131187.pdf)
3. **SB 81/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134691.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **483** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-01-30** Senate Hopper
- **2013-01-31** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-02-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-02-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-02-20** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-02-27** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-04-02** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 175 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71609d65-8111-4d56-bfce-9022370fcc92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).