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Bill "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975" commercial cheating services that target students and examinees seeking a professional license as an unlawful, unfair, and deceptive trade practice; ban A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975," so as to ban commercial cheating services that target students and examinees seeking a professional license as an unlawful, unfair, and deceptive trade practice; to provide for definitions; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 SB 213 Georgia SB 213 (2025_26)
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COMMERCE AND TRADE
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Bill Cowsert
Carden Summers
Ed Harbison
Frank Ginn
Greg Dolezal
John Albers
Kay Kirkpatrick
Max Burns
Michael 'Doc' Rhett
Randy Robertson
Steve Gooch
4 17 2 2025-02-19 2025-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/304e7bad-69ba-4d8d-9cca-c973b0834757 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 6ce1673add51e93a5516a875e7794f073e49976c2817f86fc817de2565227f87 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia SB 213 (2025_26) — "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975" commercial cheating services that target students and examinees seeking a professional license as an unlawful, unfair, and deceptive trade practice; ban

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975," so as to ban commercial cheating services that target students and examinees seeking a professional license as an unlawful, unfair, and deceptive trade practice; to provide for definitions; to provide for statutory construction; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
  2. As introduced LC 60 0080 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Floor Amend 1 AM 60 0005 (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB 213/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • House Vote #373 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1557 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Vote #200 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 531 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
  • Carden Summers — primary (person)
  • Ed Harbison — primary (person)
  • Frank Ginn — primary (person)
  • Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
  • John Albers — primary (person)
  • Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
  • Max Burns — primary (person)
  • Michael 'Doc' Rhett — primary (person)
  • Randy Robertson — primary (person)
  • Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-19 Senate Hopper introduction
  • 2025-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2025-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2025-03-06 Senate Tabled
  • 2025-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
  • 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2025-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-14 Act 300 executive-signature
  • 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/304e7bad-69ba-4d8d-9cca-c973b0834757. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).