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| Bill | Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to business corporations, so as to provide for benefit corporations; to provide for the application of the Georgia Business Corporation Code; to provide for definitions; to provide for naming; to provide for stock certificates; to provide for amendments and transactions; to provide for duties and limitations of liability of directors of benefit corporations; to provide for annual public benefit reports; to change the definition of a foreign corporation; to change provisions relating to the right to dissent; to change provisions relating to the corporate name of a foreign corporation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2019_20 | HB 230 | Georgia HB 230 (2019_20) |
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2 | 15 | 1 | 2019-02-08 | 2021-01-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/b25ab383-beff-465b-a3de-545bd4ac51cf | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 09619098441310a241031198c963cfd2aaa86f209e17cf40edab1194a6077639 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia HB 230 (2019_20) — Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 14 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to business corporations, so as to provide for benefit corporations; to provide for the application of the Georgia Business Corporation Code; to provide for definitions; to provide for naming; to provide for stock certificates; to provide for amendments and transactions; to provide for duties and limitations of liability of directors of benefit corporations; to provide for annual public benefit reports; to change the definition of a foreign corporation; to change provisions relating to the right to dissent; to change provisions relating to the corporate name of a foreign corporation; 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 — 165–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Josh McLaurin — primary (person)
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
- Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
- Matthew Wilson — primary (person)
- Mike Wilensky — primary (person)
- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-02-08 House Hopper
- 2019-02-11 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2019-02-12 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2019-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2019-03-05 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2019-03-05 House Passed/Adopted
passage - 2019-03-07 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2020-01-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2020-01-29 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2020-06-25 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2020-06-25 Senate Passed/Adopted
passage - 2020-06-30 House Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2020-07-29 House Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2020-07-29 Act 487
executive-signature - 2021-01-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b25ab383-beff-465b-a3de-545bd4ac51cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).