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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic Beverages; provide governing authorities of counties in which the sale for consumption is lawful; authorize certain time on Sundays"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alcoholic beverages, so as to provide that governing authorities of counties and municipalities in which the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises is lawful may authorize sales of such alcoholic beverages during a certain time on Sundays; to change the time on Sunday during which farm wineries may sell certain wine for consumption on the premises; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "Georgia SB 17 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Brandon Beach", "Butch Miller", "Elena Parent", "Frank Ginn", "Gloria Butler", "Hunter Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers", "Lester Jackson", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb2459b1-1278-4974-80cf-38974b920804"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e1f4c5ebe8230a2f0386e2da0b156681c5cdc28b0314323608c87ceba9262771"
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 17 (2017_18) — Alcoholic Beverages; provide governing authorities of counties in which the sale for consumption is lawful; authorize certain time on Sundays
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to alcoholic beverages, so as to provide that governing authorities of counties and municipalities in which the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises is lawful may authorize sales of such alcoholic beverages during a certain time on Sundays; to change the time on Sunday during which farm wineries may sell certain wine for consumption on the premises; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **3818** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Elena Parent — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Hunter Hill — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-12** Senate Hopper
- **2017-01-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-07** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-12** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-12** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 461 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb2459b1-1278-4974-80cf-38974b920804`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).