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type: "Bill"
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title: "\"Protecting Georgia Businesses and Workers Act\"; enact"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum wage law, so as to prohibit the regulation of employee work hours, scheduling, and output by local government entities; to provide for exceptions; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2021_22"
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identifier: "SB 331"
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citation: "Georgia SB 331 (2021_22)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Butch Miller", "Carden Summers", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Mike Dugan", "Randy Robertson", "Steve Gooch"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2022-01-10"
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last_action: "2022-05-05"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e6c3949-b617-48a9-8331-ebd4cfeb6888"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "115d345a56179134a524c3a13569fe79c18cf61d04e115fb0105b8df4b268634"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia SB 331 (2021_22) — "Protecting Georgia Businesses and Workers Act"; enact
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum wage law, so as to prohibit the regulation of employee work hours, scheduling, and output by local government entities; to provide for exceptions; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **As introduced LC 36 4877** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203246.pdf)
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2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/206989.pdf)
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3. **Committee sub LC 36 5105S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/205885.pdf)
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4. **SB 331/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/210141.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **31–21** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Butch Miller — primary (person)
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- Carden Summers — primary (person)
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- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
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- John Albers — primary (person)
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- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
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- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
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- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
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- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-01-10** Senate Hopper
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- **2022-01-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2022-02-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-02-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2022-02-17** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2022-02-17** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2022-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2022-02-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-03** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2022-03-22** House Notice to Reconsider
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- **2022-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2022-05-02** Effective Date
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- **2022-05-05** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2022-05-05** Act 823 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e6c3949-b617-48a9-8331-ebd4cfeb6888`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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