republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-310.md

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Bill	Professions; regulations; provide; certain boxing, wrestling, and martial arts associations and federations; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide for the regulation of certain professions; to change certain provisions relating to certain boxing, wrestling, and martial art associations and federations; to revise a definition; to change the applicability of certain provisions as to matches, contests, or exhibitions; to provide for the profession of professional structural engineer; to provide for definitions; to provide for continuing education requirements; to provide for unlawful practices; to provide for the issuance of certificates of registration for such professionals; to provide for registration by comity; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 310	Georgia SB 310 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Chuck Hufstetler P. K. Martin IV Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	4	16	1	2020-01-27	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3aad326e-3718-402e-bd5f-dc0bca64ac5f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5772129dbb4d92f747728160ca9fac32ae307ef9efb1e8439027184db7f65a29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 310 (2019_20) — Professions; regulations; provide; certain boxing, wrestling, and martial arts associations and federations; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide for the regulation of certain professions; to change certain provisions relating to certain boxing, wrestling, and martial art associations and federations; to revise a definition; to change the applicability of certain provisions as to matches, contests, or exhibitions; to provide for the profession of professional structural engineer; to provide for definitions; to provide for continuing education requirements; to provide for unlawful practices; to provide for the issuance of certificates of registration for such professionals; to provide for registration by comity; to provide for exceptions; 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 36 4117 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 36 4190S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 310/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 46–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-27 Senate Hopper
• 2020-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-02-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 House Postponed
• 2020-06-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-20 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-04 Act 561 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3aad326e-3718-402e-bd5f-dc0bca64ac5f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).