republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-211.md

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Bill	Advertisement and Sale of Meat; representation of nonanimal products and non-slaughtered animal flesh as meat; render unlawful	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to advertisement and sale of meat generally, so as to render unlawful the representation of nonanimal products and non-slaughtered animal flesh as meat; to provide a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 211	Georgia SB 211 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Heath Ellis Black Greg Kirk John Wilkinson Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	5	16	1	2019-02-27	2020-12-31	openstates	ocd-bill/e0d9eb41-80ae-4e9c-8453-50d631a80721	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b2caf8316140330d345bbc553ec87bc92fa0015e348caa73e94d93d3bc3ba256	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 211 (2019_20) — Advertisement and Sale of Meat; representation of nonanimal products and non-slaughtered animal flesh as meat; render unlawful

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to advertisement and sale of meat generally, so as to render unlawful the representation of nonanimal products and non-slaughtered animal flesh as meat; to provide a definition; 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. As introduced LC 44 1173 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 1 LC AM 44 0102 (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 1522S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB211/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE AS AMENDED — 48–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Heath — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-27 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2019-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-24 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-24 Act 486 executive-signature
• 2020-12-31 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e0d9eb41-80ae-4e9c-8453-50d631a80721. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).