History. Ga. L. 1975, p. 1619, § 2; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1284, § 6/HB 259; Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 50/HB 737; Ga. L. 2021, p. 271, § 2/HB 611.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, designated the existing provisions as subsection (a); inserted “Georgia resident businesses and” near the middle of the last sentence of subsection (a); and added subsection (b).
The 2016 amendment, effective May 3, 2016, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in subsection (a). See Editor’s notes.
The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, added subsection (c).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2015, p. 1284, § 1/HB 259, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Business Act.”’
Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 50/HB 737, which amended this Code section, purported to amend subsection (b), but actually amended subsection (a).