republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-205.md

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Bill	Funeral Directors and Embalmers; reinstatement of a lapsed funeral director's license; change provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licenses for funeral directors and embalmers, so as to change certain provisions related to the reinstatement of a lapsed funeral director's license; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 205	Georgia SB 205 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Brandon Beach Carden Summers Frank Ginn John Albers John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Max Burns Mike Dugan Mike Hodges Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman Shelly Echols	3	15	2	2023-02-16	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/022f98f6-be23-4e35-b6ac-5c925317ce7c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	fb49d19bd60cc4e268e7acc00de48ac9d60b7cfdf63f385ef2e02b9006c0bed5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 205 (2023_24) — Funeral Directors and Embalmers; reinstatement of a lapsed funeral director's license; change provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licenses for funeral directors and embalmers, so as to change certain provisions related to the reinstatement of a lapsed funeral director's license; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 5496 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 205/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #689 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 171–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #482 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Shelly Echols — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-08 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-07 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-13 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-23 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Act 478 executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/022f98f6-be23-4e35-b6ac-5c925317ce7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).