republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-1150.md

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Bill	Freedom to Farm Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 41-1-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to treatment of agricultural facilities and operations and forest land as nuisances, so as to provide for legislative intent; to remove a definition; to limit the circumstances under which agricultural facilities and operations may be sued for a nuisance; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 1150	Georgia HB 1150 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Beth Camp Clay Pirkle Rick Jasperse Robert Dickey Sam Watson Terry England	6	17	1	2022-02-01	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/178b48eb-185a-4f33-a613-c41341bf6546	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c16a9f9ecc1cafc488527fe5477718d2b0866c55853b3a12107859c0ffae138e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1150 (2021_22) — Freedom to Farm Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 41-1-7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to treatment of agricultural facilities and operations and forest land as nuisances, so as to provide for legislative intent; to remove a definition; to limit the circumstances under which agricultural facilities and operations may be sued for a nuisance; to provide for a short title; 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 1150/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 51 0085/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 51 0143S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 51 0143S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 51 0194S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 51 0202S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 102–62 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Camp — primary (person)
• Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Terry England — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-01 House Hopper
• 2022-02-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-02-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-29 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-04-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-04-01 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-13 Act 598 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/178b48eb-185a-4f33-a613-c41341bf6546. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).