"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
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Became law
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Officially: “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...” Read the full text
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2025-2026 regular session
Where it is
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Senate Hopper · Feb 19, 2025
Senate Read and Referred · Feb 20, 2025
Senate Committee Favorably Reported · Feb 28, 2025
Senate Read Second Time · Mar 3, 2025
Senate Tabled · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Taken from Table · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Third Read · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended · Mar 6, 2025
House First Readers · Mar 10, 2025
House Second Readers · Mar 11, 2025
House Committee Favorably Reported · Mar 20, 2025
House Third Readers · Mar 31, 2025
House Passed/Adopted · Mar 31, 2025
Senate Sent to Governor · Apr 7, 2025
Senate Date Signed by Governor · May 14, 2025
Act 300 · May 14, 2025
Effective Date · Jul 1, 2025
The numbers
12
sponsors on the bill
Sponsors
Kirkpatrick, KayCowsert, BillAlbers, JohnRhett, Michael 'Doc'Summers, CardenGinn, FrankGooch, SteveRobertson, RandyHarbison, EdDolezal, GregBurns, MaxMartin, Chuck
Recorded votes
PASSAGEHouse · 2025-03-31 · yea 155, nay 7, notVoting 5, excused 13
PASSAGE AS AMENDEDSenate · 2025-03-06 · yea 53, nay 1, notVoting 2, excused 0
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the Georgia legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
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