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type: "Bill"
title: "\"Georgia Professional Regulation Reform Act\"; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating professions and businesses, so as to enact the \"Georgia Professional Regulation Reform Act\"; to provide for executive oversight of licensing boards; to establish state policy for the regulation of certain professions and businesses; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; 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 952"
citation: "Georgia HB 952 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Carter", "Chad Nimmer", "Christian Coomer", "Robert Dickey", "Terry Rogers"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-02-09"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c88e600b-18cb-4c3e-8e93-931ad7980a3a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5f0d98b18401b81d528ee98498a32f13033b2d96cd4f16863c7d96e00d23b539"
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 952 (2015_16) — "Georgia Professional Regulation Reform Act"; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating professions and businesses, so as to enact the "Georgia Professional Regulation Reform Act"; to provide for executive oversight of licensing boards; to establish state policy for the regulation of certain professions and businesses; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; 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. **HB 952/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162188.pdf)
2. **LC 40 1068-EC/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156900.pdf)
3. **LC 40 1149-ECS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159089.pdf)
4. **LC 40 1149-ECS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158884.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 36 3062S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159600.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1453** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Amy Carter — primary (person)
- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-02-09** House Hopper
- **2016-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-25** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-29** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-08** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-16** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-16** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-03-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2016-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-27** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-27** Act 485 `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c88e600b-18cb-4c3e-8e93-931ad7980a3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).