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type: "Bill"
title: "Contracts; provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 4 of Title 10 and Chapter 1 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to self-service storage facilities and general provisions regarding contracts, respectively, so as to provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty; to update a cross-reference; to provide for definitions; to enhance service member consumer protections under the law to include certain television, video, and audio programming services, internet access services, and health spa services; to provide for conditions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 25"
citation: "Georgia HB 25 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Bill Hitchens", "Dave Belton", "Josh Bonner", "Mike Glanton", "Shaw Blackmon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f71c565c-a59d-4da5-8312-704be8d7975c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e006049b1326f359b4624221adf683100a60d3b544df34726bedeef241853393"
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 HB 25 (2019_20) — Contracts; provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 4 of Title 10 and Chapter 1 of Title 13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to self-service storage facilities and general provisions regarding contracts, respectively, so as to provide military service members civil relief concerning certain contractual obligations due to circumstances of active duty; to update a cross-reference; to provide for definitions; to enhance service member consumer protections under the law to include certain television, video, and audio programming services, internet access services, and health spa services; to provide for conditions; 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.
1. **HB 25/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187551.pdf)
2. **LC 41 1641/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179535.pdf)
3. **LC 41 1776S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180813.pdf)
4. **LC 41 1785S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181339.pdf)
5. **LC 41 1785S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181252.pdf)
6. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 1966S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185084.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1731** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Al Williams — primary (person)
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- Josh Bonner — primary (person)
- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-16** House Hopper
- **2019-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-11** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-02-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-23** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-23** Act 39 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f71c565c-a59d-4da5-8312-704be8d7975c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).