2025-2026 Regular Session

SB416

"Stop Online Booking Scams Act"; enact

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 prohibit third-party hotel booking websites from misrepresenting their affiliations with hotels; to designate such misrepresentation as an unlawful, unfair, and deceptive trade practice; to provide for definitions; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Economic Development and Tourism
Last status date: January 27, 2026
Last status update: Senate Read and Referred
Pending committee: Economic Development and Tourism
Author: Sonya Halpern
Co-sponsors: Jason Anavitarte Drew Echols Harold Jones Freddie Sims Kim Jackson Elena Parent

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Committee referrals

January 27, 2026 · Senate

Economic Development and Tourism

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.

January 27, 2026
Senate Senate Read and Referred
January 16, 2026
Senate Senate Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2085240
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/SB416.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00