republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-324.md

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Bill	Georgia's Hope Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide for the production, manufacturing, and dispensing of low THC oil in this state; to provide for an exception to possession of certain quantities of low THC oil; to amend Chapter 11 of Title 2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to seeds and plants generally, so as to provide for an exception; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 324	Georgia HB 324 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Calvin Smyre David Clark Mark Newton Micah Gravley Scot Turner	7	23	1	2019-02-14	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a3692c4d-b2fd-46b9-93eb-c1e4b1c7befa	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	385b9b8b92499dfd1e46bd891458b9ff73a71acca4020de473666f14440cfec5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 324 (2019_20) — Georgia's Hope Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide for the production, manufacturing, and dispensing of low THC oil in this state; to provide for an exception to possession of certain quantities of low THC oil; to amend Chapter 11 of Title 2 of the O.C.G.A., relating to seeds and plants generally, so as to provide for an exception; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; 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. Floor Amendment AM 33 1866 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 324/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 324/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 7715/a (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 8050S/CCR (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 36 3941S/hs (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen ctee sub LC 28 9384S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AM 33 1866 — 100–65 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• David Clark — primary (person)
• Mark Newton — primary (person)
• Micah Gravley — primary (person)
• Scot Turner — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-02-14 House Hopper
• 2019-02-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-04 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2019-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-29 House Disagreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2019-03-29 Senate Insisted
• 2019-03-29 House Insisted
• 2019-03-29 House Conference Committee Appointed 67th, 135th, 123rd
• 2019-03-29 Senate Conference Committee Appointed 28th, 46th, 17th
• 2019-04-02 Senate Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2019-04-02 House Conference Committee Report Adopted
• 2019-04-12 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-17 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-04-17 Act 27 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3692c4d-b2fd-46b9-93eb-c1e4b1c7befa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).