republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-117.md

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Bill	Food service establishments; require notification of the country of origin of seafood items	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 13 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to food service establishments, so as to require notification of the country of origin of seafood items; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 117	Georgia HB 117 (2025_26)	bill	FOOD DRUGS AND COSMETICS	enacted	Al Williams Buddy DeLoach Jesse Petrea Lehman Franklin Rick Townsend	7	21	3	2025-01-17	2026-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/fc4eb0c1-ac62-46b9-b13f-3ab35480e91e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5f433dcbd8cf4849460c3701eb87d8c477f47a94ee1f5ab80e02f358e569acff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 117 (2025_26) — Food service establishments; require notification of the country of origin of seafood items

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 13 of Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to food service establishments, so as to require notification of the country of origin of seafood items; to provide for a definition; 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 117/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 44 2867/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 44 3039S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 3039S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Ctee Sub LC 60 0111S (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen Ctee Sub LC 60 0252S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen Ctee sub LC 60 0166S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #43 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 165–7 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #508 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 43–8 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #500 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 159–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Al Williams — primary (person)
• Buddy DeLoach — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Lehman Franklin — primary (person)
• Rick Townsend — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-12 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-02-19 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-28 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2026-01-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-01-12 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-11 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-06 Act 426 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc4eb0c1-ac62-46b9-b13f-3ab35480e91e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).