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type: "Bill"
title: "Commerce and trade; commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; provide protections"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to selling and other trade practices, so as to provide protections for commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; to prohibit the deceptive practice of musical performance groups advertising and appearing as the recording group without the recording group's permission or denoting that it is a salute or tribute performance; to provide for definitions; to specify violations; to require certain websites or online services to properly identify third-party commercial recordings or audiovisual works; to provide for definitions; to provide for civil and criminal penalties and causes of action; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 508"
citation: "Georgia HB 508 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bert Reeves", "Beth Moore", "Houston Gaines", "Kasey Carpenter", "Spencer Frye"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-17"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6a91a30-07c6-415f-bb6e-0f8bbd90e682"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "394453c7b72075f76fbb68ea255df90c338682f1fe9482984abb3b393cd82a81"
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 HB 508 (2021_22) — Commerce and trade; commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; provide protections
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to selling and other trade practices, so as to provide protections for commercial recordings, musical performances, and audiovisual works; to prohibit the deceptive practice of musical performance groups advertising and appearing as the recording group without the recording group's permission or denoting that it is a salute or tribute performance; to provide for definitions; to specify violations; to require certain websites or online services to properly identify third-party commercial recordings or audiovisual works; to provide for definitions; to provide for civil and criminal penalties and causes of action; 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 508/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/211718.pdf)
2. **LC 36 4672/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197965.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **164–1** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bert Reeves — primary (person)
- Beth Moore — primary (person)
- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
- Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
- Spencer Frye — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-17** House Hopper
- **2021-02-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2022-04-01** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2022-04-01** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2022-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-02** Act 744 `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6a91a30-07c6-415f-bb6e-0f8bbd90e682`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).