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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages; sale or furnishing to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and sale or possession near or upon the grounds; change certain provisions"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prohibited acts relative to the regulation of alcoholic beverages, so as to change certain provisions relating to the sale or furnishing of alcoholic beverages to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and to the sale or possession of alcoholic beverages near or upon the grounds of such hospital; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 85"
citation: "Georgia HB 85 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Harrell", "James Epps", "Rusty Kidd"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-01-26"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01a832a1-c39c-484a-8e6f-23181ae7d9a5"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "c1b40ecca813a37c12a58e67577494612f8ae67f9df42a42755b917a0b79bd0b"
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 85 (2015_16) — Alcoholic beverages; sale or furnishing to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and sale or possession near or upon the grounds; change certain provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to prohibited acts relative to the regulation of alcoholic beverages, so as to change certain provisions relating to the sale or furnishing of alcoholic beverages to patients or inmates of Central State Hospital and to the sale or possession of alcoholic beverages near or upon the grounds of such hospital; 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. **Floor Amendment AM 36 0490** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149299.pdf)
2. **HB 85/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153768.pdf)
3. **HB 85/FA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149324.pdf)
4. **LC 36 2597/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145704.pdf)
5. **Sen fl amend 1 AM 36 0525** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153022.pdf)
6. **Sen fl amend 2 AM 36 0524** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153563.pdf)
7. **Sen fl amend 3 AM 36 0527** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153074.pdf)
8. **Sen fl amend 4 AM 36 0528** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153086.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **15012** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brett Harrell — primary (person)
- James Epps — primary (person)
- Rusty Kidd — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-01-26** House Hopper
- **2015-01-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-18** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-02-25** House Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2015-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-19** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2015-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2015-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-04-20** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-20** Act 22 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01a832a1-c39c-484a-8e6f-23181ae7d9a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).