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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic Beverages; regulations; provisions; annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; change"
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 change certain provisions relating to the regulation of alcoholic beverages; to change provisions relating to certain annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "Georgia SB 226 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burt Jones", "Butch Miller", "David Lucas", "Frank Ginn", "Jack Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "Renee Unterman", "Rick Jeffares", "Steve Henson"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2017-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/257952e9-6791-470f-a10d-68ffb9c57793"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "87d1f24d4cf1cf55dd97e8ff1321ec775d982fc1b1088309dfd8a6cef7d01509"
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 226 (2017_18) — Alcoholic Beverages; regulations; provisions; annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; change
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 change certain provisions relating to the regulation of alcoholic beverages; to change provisions relating to certain annual production requirements for Georgia farm wineries; to provide for related matters; to provide 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **502** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- David Lucas — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Jack Hill — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
- Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-21** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-24** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 273 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/257952e9-6791-470f-a10d-68ffb9c57793`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).