2025-2026 Regular Session

HB493

State symbols; pineywoods cattle as official Georgia heritage cattle breed; designate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to other state symbols, so as to designate pineywoods cattle as the official Georgia heritage cattle breed; to provide for legislative findings and declarations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Introduced in House
Last status date: April 4, 2025
Last status update: House Withdrawn, Recommitted
Author: Jutt Howard
Co-sponsors: David Huddleston Jason Ridley Danny Mathis Jaclyn Ford Martin Momtahan

Legislative progress

This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.

House committee reassignment April 4, 2025

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Committee referrals

February 19, 2025 · House

Special Rules

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

April 4, 2025
House House Withdrawn, Recommitted
March 3, 2025
House House Committee Favorably Reported
February 20, 2025
House House Second Readers
February 19, 2025
House House First Readers
February 18, 2025
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1974232
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB493.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00