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type: "Bill"
title: "Sales of Alcoholic Beverages on Sunday; allow for local authorization; consumption on the premises on Sundays during St. Patrick's Day holiday period"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 3-3-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local authorization and regulation of sales of alcoholic beverages on Sunday, so as to allow for local authorization and regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises on Sundays during the St. Patrick's Day holiday period; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 103"
citation: "Georgia SB 103 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Lester Jackson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-11"
last_action: "2015-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c404b892-86da-4f07-92af-06b0e6d0e72c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "decdbf0dde39db6518769a7d39cb215a17e3c2d24737635074339331804d9513"
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 103 (2015_16) — Sales of Alcoholic Beverages on Sunday; allow for local authorization; consumption on the premises on Sundays during St. Patrick's Day holiday period
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 3-3-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to local authorization and regulation of sales of alcoholic beverages on Sunday, so as to allow for local authorization and regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises on Sundays during the St. Patrick's Day holiday period; to provide for related matters; 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 37 1916** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147482.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150437.pdf)
3. **Floor amend 1 AM 36 0494** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150274.pdf)
4. **SB 103/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150880.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE AS AMENDED — **3219** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-11** Senate Hopper
- **2015-02-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-26** Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
- **2015-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-04** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2015-03-09** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-11** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-11** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2015-03-13** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-03-13** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-03-13** Act 10 `executive-signature`
- **2015-03-13** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c404b892-86da-4f07-92af-06b0e6d0e72c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).