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type: "Bill"
title: "\"Georgia Food Act\"; certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration; confidential and not subject to disclosure; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the \"Georgia Food Act,\" so as to provide that certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration is deemed confidential and not subject to disclosure; 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: "SB 381"
citation: "Georgia SB 381 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "John Wilkinson", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Larry Walker, III", "Sheikh Rahman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-02-18"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/361abddb-2945-48dd-ae18-dea5cf9f1453"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "760146268a194806ea7e4477eaca6560fb5914fe70f1fb31a590b95fab47abe6"
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 SB 381 (2019_20) — "Georgia Food Act"; certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration; confidential and not subject to disclosure; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Georgia Food Act," so as to provide that certain information obtained by the Department of Agriculture from the federal Food and Drug Administration is deemed confidential and not subject to disclosure; 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 33 8225** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189754.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192903.pdf)
3. **SB 381/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/195091.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **460** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
- Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-18** Senate Hopper
- **2020-02-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-03-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-06-22** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-06-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Act 517 `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/361abddb-2945-48dd-ae18-dea5cf9f1453`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).