republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-579.md

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Bill	Professions and businesses; licensure to engage in trade; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to revise provisions relating to licensure to engage in the practice of a profession, business, or trade in this state; to amend Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to social services, so as to conform a cross-reference; to provide for an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 579	Georgia HB 579 (2025_26)	bill	PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES SOCIAL SERVICES	enacted	Brian Prince Marcus Wiedower Matt Hatchett Matt Reeves Sandy Donatucci Tim Fleming	5	15	2	2025-02-21	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b37a923c-e7f8-4f09-8497-9b9417eef7a6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5a824616ba78df22bf7a1f6d87939d49d1ccaf2e41ac29031c74335b5281b6aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 579 (2025_26) — Professions and businesses; licensure to engage in trade; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to revise provisions relating to licensure to engage in the practice of a profession, business, or trade in this state; to amend Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to social services, so as to conform a cross-reference; to provide for an effective date; 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 579/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 55 0529/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 55 0559S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 55 0580S/RCS (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 55 0580S/rcs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #201 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 158–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #306 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Prince — primary (person)
• Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Matt Reeves — primary (person)
• Sandy Donatucci — primary (person)
• Tim Fleming — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-06 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 89 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b37a923c-e7f8-4f09-8497-9b9417eef7a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).