Judiciary

GA - Group A (Senate)

GA - Group B (Senate)

GA - Senator Jesse Stone (R)

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Chairman

GA - Senator Bill Cowsert (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Senator Blake Tillery (R)

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Secretary

GA - Senator Bill Heath (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Harold V. Jones II (D)

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Member

GA - Senator John F. Kennedy (R)

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Member

GA - Senator William T. Ligon, Jr. (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Elena Parent (D)

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Member

GA - Senator Michael 'Doc' Rhett (D)

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Member

GA - Senator Brian Strickland (R)

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Member

GA - SB58 Attorney General; written approval that allows for a private person to bring a civil action regarding false taxpayer claims; eliminate requirement

GA - SB150 Crimes and Offenses; persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes of family violence receiving, possessing, transporting a firearm; prohibit

GA - SB148 Equipment of Motor Vehicles; safety belts required as equipment, safety restraints for children; provisions; revise

GA - HB246 Evidence; revise manner by which depositions taken at the instance of state are paid

GA - SB203 Civil Actions; limitations; retroactive application of certain limitations of actions; prohibit

GA - HB70 Guardian and ward; guardian and conservators of minors and adults; revise provisions

GA - HB234 Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act; enact

GA - HB21 Gwinnett Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide

GA - HB472 Juvenile Code; procedures concerning removal considerations; revise

GA - SB513 "Georgia Justice Act"; police and justice matters; various titles of the O.C.G.A.; revise

GA - SB288 Criminal History Record Information; automatic restriction; final disposition other than a conviction; provide

GA - SB344 Witness or Criminal Defendant; certain proceedings conducted by video conference; requirements; provide

GA - SB514 State Tort Claims; actions of certain law enforcement officers; certain immunities; remove

GA - SB388 General Income Tax Provisions; certain actions relating to false or fraudulent material matter on returns, affidavits, claims, or documents; penalties; increase

GA - HB538 Revenue and taxation; all questions of law decided by the Georgia Tax Tribunal be decided without deference to the rules, determinations, or interpretations of the Department of Revenue; require

GA - SB390 Civil Practice and Litigation; several titles of the O.C.G.A.; amend and revise

GA - HB555 Criminal procedure; add public child welfare case manager to the people for whom arrest warrants may be issued only by certain judicial officers

GA - SB464 "Georgia Uniform Mediation Act"; uniform laws governing mediation and participants in mediation; provide; enact

GA - HB969 Housing; certain provisions pertaining to unlawful practices in selling or renting dwellings and the procedures, remedies, and judicial review related thereto; change

GA - SB11 Qualifications of Electors; convictions for offenses involving the purchase, possession, or control of certain controlled substances; provide

GA - SB35 Sex Offenders; residing near their victims and such victims' immediate family members; prohibit

GA - SB40 Sexual Assault By Persons with Supervisory or Disciplinary Authority; sexual contact between an employee and student enrolled at such school; prohibit

GA - SB9 Invasion of Privacy; sexual extortion; prohibit; definitions; elements of the crime; provide

GA - SB59 Wiretapping, Eavesdropping; it shall be legal to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication if all parties consent to such interception; provide

GA - SR55 United States Constitution; ratify an Amendment; Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex

GA - SB135 Workers' Compensation; certain provisions; change

GA - SB136 Magistrate Courts; statutory requirements for officers and the executive committee of the Council of Magistrate Court Judges; remove

GA - SB34 Dangerous Instrumentalities and Practices; persons who are ineligible for weapons carry licenses; provisions; change

GA - SB10 Controlled Substances; possession of certain quantities of marijuana constitute a misdemeanor; provide

GA - SR66 United States Constitution; Amendment; United States Constitution; ratify an Amendment; Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex; ratify

GA - SB187 Georgia Crime Information Center; judicial procedure for purging a person's involuntary hospitalization information; provide

GA - SB190 Child Custody Intrastate Jurisdiction Act; party may bring a counterclaim for contempt in response to a complaint seeking a change of legal or physical custody; provide

GA - SB191 Courts; law assistants as law clerks and staff attorneys; rename

GA - HB228 Marriage; change minimum age from 16 to 17 and require any person who is 17 to have been emancipated

GA - HB281 Crimes and offenses; pimping and pandering; increase penalty provisions

GA - SB167 Relative Search by DFCS; foster placement for a child adjudicated as a dependent; determine such child's permanency plan; provide

GA - SB164 Bonds and Recognizances; when and under what circumstances persons accused of crimes may be released on their own recognizance; provisions; revise

GA - SB166 "Georgia Enhanced Penalties for Hate Crimes Act"; enact

GA - SB221 "The Religious Freedom Restoration Act"; enact

GA - SB218 "Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act"; enact

GA - HB543 Domestic relations; equitable caregivers; provide

GA - HB426 Criminal procedure; imposition of punishment for crimes involving bias or prejudice; revise criteria

GA - HB478 Social services; improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; provide

GA - HB307 The Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act; enact

GA - HB311 State government; waiver of sovereign immunity as to actions ex contractu and state tort claims; provisions

GA - HB353 Insurance; create the crime of staging a motor vehicle collision

GA - SB52 Code Revision Commission; statutory portion of said Code; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in and reenact

GA - SB1 "C.J.'s Law"; penalty for hit and run accidents that result in serious injury; provide

GA - HB79 Blind persons; child custody matters; provisions

GA - HB230 Business corporations; provide for benefit corporations

GA - HB239 Georgia Business Court; establish

GA - HB387 Property; liens in favor of private, nonprofit, volunteer fire departments for instances of fire services that are requested by property owners; provide

GA - HB288 Superior courts; revise the sums that the clerks are entitled to charge and collect for filing documents and instruments pertaining to real estate or personal property

GA - HB346 Property; prohibit retaliation by a landlord against a tenant for taking certain actions

GA - SB64 Juvenile Code; certain acts; offense of a terroristic threat as a Class B designated felony act; include

GA - SB228 "Child Victim Act of 2019"

GA - SB229 Courts; parental accountability court divisions to provide alternative adjudication to the traditional judicial system; create

GA - SB224 Crimes and Offenses; carrying of weapons in judicial courts by weapons carry license holders; provisions; revise

GA - SB222 Criminal Procedure; Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform; create

GA - HB64 Protecting Military Children Act; enact

GA - SB110 Courts; State-wide Business Court; pursuant to the Constitution of this state; establish

GA - SB269 Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; revise definition; persons classified as sexually dangerous predators who fail to report; penalty; provide

GA - SB281 Dangerous Instrumentalities and Practices; possession of automatic and semi-automatic guns; prohibit; revise and provide definitions

GA - SB528 "Ahmaud Arbery Act"; enact

GA - SB305 Brady Law Regulations; individual registration and license for the purchase of assault weapons ammunition; require

GA - SB287 Limitations on Prosecution; statute of limitations on the offenses of rape; revise

GA - SB315 Mechanics and Materialmen; waiver and release of lien and bond rights/other remedies under the law; provide

GA - SB318 Education; public forums at public institutions of higher education; provide

GA - SB325 Limitations on Prosecution; statute of limitations; corporation may be prosecuted for trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude; revise

GA - SB326 Sentencing and Imposition of Punishment; court imposing sentence may grant the relief of vacatur for nonviolent convictions; provide

GA - SB331 Minors; to knowingly possess images that depict a naked or nearly naked, suggestively posed and inappropriately sexualized child; illegal

GA - SB332 Obscenity and Related Offenses; possession or manufacture of childlike sex dolls; prohibit

GA - SB335 Children and Youth; foster children and foster families; laws and supports; strengthen

GA - SB357 Firearms; carry weapons in places of worship and in schools operated by such places of worship; revise the ability

GA - HB993 Health; vital records reports and data from the state registrar relating to child abuse reports; provide

GA - SB515 Justification and Excuse; "stand your ground" law; repeal

GA - SR970 Persons Convicted of Felonies; lose their right to vote only if they are sentenced to incarceration; provide -CA

GA - SB378 Brady Law Regulations; certain persons secure a license in order to manufacture a firearm in this state; require

GA - SB368 Children and Youth Services; child-placing agencies from being required to perform or participate; when placement violates certain religious or moral convictions of the child-placing agency; prohibit

GA - SB373 Nonprofit Corporations; directors and officers of electric membership corporations and foreign electric cooperatives; provisions; change

GA - SB423 "Max Gruver Act"; expanded definition of hazing; provide; enact

GA - SB439 Juvenile Code; enhanced notice to and improved participation of foster, preadoptive, and relative caregivers in certain hearings; provide

GA - SB442 Property; amendments to property owners' association instruments and covenants that restrict rental of residential lots and plots; prohibit

GA - SB443 Garnishment Proceedings; revise; uniform procedures for garnishment actions; provide

GA - SB449 Firearms; weapons carry license holders from certain weapons carry restrictions; exempt

GA - SB451 Deficiencies Connected with Improvements to Realty and Resulting Injuries; actions that may be brought pursuant to Code Section 9-3-51; clarify

GA - SB452 Appellate Practice and Arraignment and Pleas; judgments of conviction entered upon a plea of guilty; withdraw the right of appeal

GA - SB453 Courts; statutory rules and procedures for the recusal or disqualification of judges of the superior and state courts; provide

GA - SR841 Legislative Acts; void; people of this state may petition the judiciary for declaratory relief from certain acts of this state that violate the laws or Constitution of this state or the Constitution of the United States; provide -CA

GA - SB429 Code Revision Commission; statutory portion of said Code; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions in, and reenact

GA - SB435 "The Debbie Vance Act"; court imposing sentence may grant the relief of vacatur for convictions and sentences of defendants; provide

GA - SB437 'Georgia Cooperative Associations Code'; formation of general cooperative associations under the laws of this state; provide

GA - HB799 Motor vehicles; prohibition regarding eligibility of certain violators to receive early reinstatement of their driver's licenses and limited driving permits; repeal

GA - SB472 Contracts; recovery of voluntary payments; provisions; repeal

GA - HB968 Civil practice; clarify actions that may be brought pursuant to Code Section 9-3-51 regarding deficiencies in connection with improvements to realty

GA - HB578 Human Services, Department of; review of certain law enforcement conviction data with regard to persons seeking to become volunteers, interns, students, or employees; provide

GA - HB1003 Ogeechee Judicial Circuit; provide additional judge of the superior courts

GA - SB477 Investigation of Family Violence; terminology used in determining whom to arrest; revise

GA - HB984 Criminal procedure; sentencing; change provisions

GA - HB983 Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; information required to be provided by sexual offenders when they register; revise

GA - HB911 Crimes and offenses; offenses of improper sexual conduct by a foster parent in the first and second degrees; provide

GA - HB913 Domestic relations; protection of children; strengthen, clarify, and update provisions

GA - HB865 Wills, trusts, and administration of estates; Revised Probate Code of 1998; revise and update provisions

GA - HB912 Social services; authorize foster parents to arrange for short-term babysitting

GA - HB396 Crimes and offenses; unlawful for a person with intent to defraud a creditor's rights to deed or otherwise transfer title to real property to another person without the knowledge or consent of such other person; provide

GA - SB155 Torts; damages; an action to recover damages from death or injury only actual amounts paid for health care services/treatment be recoverable; provide

GA - SB158 "Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act"

GA - SB154 Georgia Coroner's Training Council; hearing complaints from outside parties regarding coroners; provide

GA - HB91 Hospitals and health care facilities; Federal Bureau of Investigation to retain fingerprints when an agency or entity is participating in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's program; allow

GA - HB118 Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false alarm; revise offense

GA - SB104 Resuscitation; parental requirement for consent; revise

GA - HB282 Criminal procedure; increase amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault

GA - HB381 Child support; defined terms and terminology, grammar, and punctuation; revise and correct

GA - HB424 Crimes and offenses; include certain sex crimes into the definition of criminal gang activity

GA - HB470 Law enforcement officers and agencies; analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; provide

GA - SB38 Courts; electronic filing requirements of superior and state courts; certain types of filings; exclude

GA - HB28 Griffin Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide

GA - HB296 Hall County; Northeastern Judicial Circuit; revise term of Superior Court

GA - SB520 Arrest By Private Persons; article in its entirety; repeal; Titles 17, 35, and 43; amend

GA - SB526 Sentencing and Imposition of Punishment; sentencing of defendants for crimes involving bias or prejudice; provisions; repeal

GA - SB365 Dangerous Instrumentalities and Practices and the Georgia Crime Information Center; Brady Law regulations; comprehensive revision of certain provisions; provide

GA - SB366 Brady Law Regulations; universal background checks; all manner of firearm transfers and purchases; require

GA - SB516 Indictments; preferential privileges given to peace officers; indictment or special presentment to a grand jury; remove

GA - HB786 Superior courts; additional judge of the Flint Judicial Circuit; provide

GA - HR1023 Judiciary; people may petition for declaratory relief from certain acts of this state or certain local governments or officers or employees; provide - CA

GA - SB405 Superior Courts of the Cobb Judicial Circuit; eleventh judge; provide

GA - SB414 Registration of Voters; any person convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude shall not register to, remain registered to or vote; provide

GA - SB485 Motor Vehicles and Traffic and Ignition Interlock Devices; condition of probation; individuals convicted of a first offense of driving under the influence; require