republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-1147.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Game and fish; hunting and trapping of raccoons and opossum year round; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to wildlife generally, so as to authorize the hunting and trapping of raccoons and opossum year round; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 1147	Georgia HB 1147 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Jason Ridley John Corbett John LaHood Steven Sainz Trey Rhodes Tyler Paul Smith	3	16	1	2022-02-01	2022-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/7263d5d2-3f1a-4057-8dc9-8584d830a4cf	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0a52a271b4c97aeab59ec1b818384043d2da9f5e5278ff54243f9a62c6dd8abd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1147 (2021_22) — Game and fish; hunting and trapping of raccoons and opossum year round; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to wildlife generally, so as to authorize the hunting and trapping of raccoons and opossum year round; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 1147/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 51 0077/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Sen ctee sub LC 51 0172S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 141–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jason Ridley — primary (person)
• John Corbett — primary (person)
• John LaHood — primary (person)
• Steven Sainz — primary (person)
• Trey Rhodes — primary (person)
• Tyler Paul Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-01 House Hopper
• 2022-02-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-02-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-15 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-02-15 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-17 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-30 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-10 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-10 Act 863 executive-signature
• 2022-05-10 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7263d5d2-3f1a-4057-8dc9-8584d830a4cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).