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type: "Bill"
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title: "\"Military Spouses and Veterans Licensure Act\"; enact"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to professions and businesses, so as to require professional licensing boards and other boards to adopt rules and regulations implementing a process by which military spouses and transitioning service members may qualify for temporary licenses, licenses by endorsement, expedited licenses, or a combination thereof for each profession, business, or trade for which a license is issued; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2015_16"
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identifier: "HB 821"
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citation: "Georgia HB 821 (2015_16)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Carolyn Hugley", "Gloria Frazier", "John Yates", "Richard Smith", "Stacey Abrams"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2016-01-22"
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last_action: "2016-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c01f564f-5a09-44d5-9f93-732a3d3acae1"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "bb16ecd74ef3739aff0916a07429a7cbe94adc6a06c65fd0498ab53a4f3c59cd"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 821 (2015_16) — "Military Spouses and Veterans Licensure Act"; enact
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to professions and businesses, so as to require professional licensing boards and other boards to adopt rules and regulations implementing a process by which military spouses and transitioning service members may qualify for temporary licenses, licenses by endorsement, expedited licenses, or a combination thereof for each profession, business, or trade for which a license is issued; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 821/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162452.pdf)
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2. **LC 36 2884/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155287.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **164–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Al Williams — primary (person)
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- Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
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- Gloria Frazier — primary (person)
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- John Yates — primary (person)
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- Richard Smith — primary (person)
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- Stacey Abrams — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-01-22** House Hopper
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- **2016-01-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2016-01-26** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2016-02-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2016-02-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2016-02-11** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2016-02-16** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2016-03-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2016-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
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- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
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- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2016-04-26** Act 452 `executive-signature`
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- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c01f564f-5a09-44d5-9f93-732a3d3acae1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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