republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-47.md

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Bill	Offenses Against Public Health And Morals; vaping in restricted areas is a misdemeanor punishable by fine; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide that vaping in restricted areas is a misdemeanor punishable by fine; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 47	Georgia SB 47 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Brandon Beach Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Frank Ginn Kay Kirkpatrick Max Burns Nan Orrock Rick Williams Shelly Echols	4	15	2	2023-01-30	2023-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e887c754-15e4-44e6-b689-7e79b69d10bd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	586f2d838d64984a42ee277de26ea08df78c936dedd6466946e14481c61c66ef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 47 (2023_24) — Offenses Against Public Health And Morals; vaping in restricted areas is a misdemeanor punishable by fine; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide that vaping in restricted areas is a misdemeanor punishable by fine; 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 44 2152 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 9340S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 47/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #47 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 51–3 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #266 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 152–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Shelly Echols — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-30 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2023-01-31 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2023-02-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-08 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2023-02-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2023-02-15 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2023-02-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2023-03-15 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2023-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2023-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-01 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Act 75 executive-signature
• 2023-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e887c754-15e4-44e6-b689-7e79b69d10bd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).