republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-635.md

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Bill	State Licensing Board for Residential and Commercial General Contractors; revise provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 41 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to residential and commercial general contractors, so as to revise provisions relating to the State Licensing Board for Residential and Commercial General Contractors; to revise and clarify qualifications for licensure as a residential or commercial general contractor; to revise provisions relating to examination of applicants; to revise provisions relating to the refusal to grant a license, revocation of a license, or other disciplinary action of the board; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 635	Georgia HB 635 (2025_26)	bill	PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES	enacted	Holt Persinger Lehman Franklin Marcus Wiedower Matt Reeves Rob Clifton Spencer Frye	2	17	2	2025-02-26	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/deba0ec9-f3ca-47a5-b868-ad7564583c74	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1de71cd5288f33bbe454f82c308b21bcbe0d3c8aab5ddb00ebaeee2d97f32612	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 635 (2025_26) — State Licensing Board for Residential and Commercial General Contractors; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 41 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to residential and commercial general contractors, so as to revise provisions relating to the State Licensing Board for Residential and Commercial General Contractors; to revise and clarify qualifications for licensure as a residential or commercial general contractor; to revise provisions relating to examination of applicants; to revise provisions relating to the refusal to grant a license, revocation of a license, or other disciplinary action of the board; 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 635/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 55 0546/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #252 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 171–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #430 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holt Persinger — primary (person)
• Lehman Franklin — primary (person)
• Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
• Matt Reeves — primary (person)
• Rob Clifton — primary (person)
• Spencer Frye — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-06 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2025-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-04-02 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 91 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/deba0ec9-f3ca-47a5-b868-ad7564583c74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).