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type: "Bill"
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title: "Hearing Aid Dealers and Dispensers; exempt certain activities"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 20 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to hearing aid dealers and dispensers, so as to exempt certain activities of hearing aid dealers, hearing aid dispensers, and others related to the manufacture and sale of certain nonprescription hearing aids from the applicability of said chapter; 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: "2017_18"
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identifier: "SB 153"
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citation: "Georgia SB 153 (2017_18)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Bruce Thompson", "Chuck Payne", "Greg Kirk", "Harold Jones II", "Jack Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "Judson Hill", "Lee Anderson", "Matt Brass", "Michael Williams", "Mike Dugan", "Steve Henson", "Tonya Anderson"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2017-02-09"
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last_action: "2017-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62399bbb-6e90-4608-8e49-0d0240f1718d"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "924786a98328e7f1d53f9cce27497ee3dc69f8e4450d6dc902e4f5e6cac57429"
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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 SB 153 (2017_18) — Hearing Aid Dealers and Dispensers; exempt certain activities
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 20 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to hearing aid dealers and dispensers, so as to exempt certain activities of hearing aid dealers, hearing aid dispensers, and others related to the manufacture and sale of certain nonprescription hearing aids from the applicability of said chapter; 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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## Votes
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- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **52–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ben Watson — primary (person)
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- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
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- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
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- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
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- Harold Jones II — primary (person)
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- Jack Hill — primary (person)
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- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
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- John Kennedy — primary (person)
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- Judson Hill — primary (person)
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- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
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- Matt Brass — primary (person)
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- Michael Williams — primary (person)
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- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
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- Steve Henson — primary (person)
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- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-09** Senate Hopper
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- **2017-02-10** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2017-03-20** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2017-03-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
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- **2017-04-06** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2017-05-09** Act 244 `executive-signature`
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- **2017-07-01** 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/62399bbb-6e90-4608-8e49-0d0240f1718d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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