Judiciary

GA - Senator Brian Strickland (R)

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Chairman

GA - Senator Bill Cowsert (R)

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Vice Chairman

GA - Senator John Kennedy (R)

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Secretary

GA - Senator Bo Hatchett (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Harold Jones II (D)

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Member

GA - Senator Kay Kirkpatrick (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 Blake Tillery (R)

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Member

GA - Senator Ben Watson (R)

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Member

GA - SB105 State-Wide Probation System; conditions and procedures under which probation may be terminated early; revise

GA - SB18 Limitations on Prosecution; offenses of rape, aggravated sodomy, and aggravated sexual battery; revise the statute of limitations

GA - SB10 "Jaye Mize Law"; promoting illegal drag racing and laying drags; provide for an offense

GA - SB316 Stalking; a person 18 years old or older who commits the offense of stalking against a minor shall be guilty of a high and aggravated misdemeanor; provide

GA - SB114 Professions and Businesses; grounds for refusing to grant or revoking a license; revise

GA - SB117 Department of Human Services; offenses of improper sexual contact by employee or agent in the first and second degrees; revise

GA - SB121 Perjury; false statements made in police reports by law enforcement officers; expand the offense of perjury

GA - SB126 State Tort Claims; certain immunities from the actions of certain law enforcement officers; remove

GA - SB131 Prosecuting Attorneys; appointment of a prosecuting attorney when the accused is a law enforcement officer charged with a felony or an act of family violence; provide

GA - SB133 Searches with Warrants; use of no-knock search warrant in certain circumstances; prohibit

GA - SB135 Grand Jury, Crimes and Offenses, Procedure for Indictment; provision regarding no duty to retreat prior to the use of force; repeal

GA - HB112 Torts; provide certain immunities from liability claims regarding COVID-19; extend applicability for one year

GA - SB75 Termination of Residential Lease; victims of stalking; provide

GA - SB77 Controlled Substances; possession of certain quantities of marijuana constitutes a misdemeanor; provide

GA - SB78 Invasion of Privacy; prohibition on electronically transmitting or posting nude or sexually explicit photographs or videos for purposes of harassing the depicted person; revise

GA - SB79 Registration of Voters; felonies involving moral turpitude; shall not register to, remain registered to, or vote

GA - HB154 Domestic relations; protection of children; strengthen, clarify, and update provisions

GA - SB143 Mechanics and Materialmen; waiver of lien and labor or material bond rights; conform a reference within a statutory form

GA - SB151 "Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act"; enact

GA - HB591 Mental health; marriage and family therapists to perform certain acts which physicians and others are authorized to perform; authorize

GA - HB554 Property; revise when an action may operate as a lis pendens

GA - HB620 Guardian and ward; payment of certain settlements involving claims of minors; clarify and revise procedures and requirements

GA - HB562 Criminal procedure; add DFCS case managers to people for whom arrest warrants may be issued only by certain judicial officers

GA - HB194 Criminal procedure; term of probation shall follow mandatory term of imprisonment for persons convicted of a sexual offense; clarify

GA - HB464 Guardian and ward; petition for appointment of temporary guardian of minor filed in probate court may be transferred to juvenile court; provide

GA - HB479 Criminal procedure; revise certain arrest powers; provisions

GA - HB411 Prosecuting Attorneys Oversight Commission; create

GA - HB534 Crimes and offenses; promoting illegal drag racing and laying drags; provide for offense

GA - HB327 Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act; enact

GA - HB258 Crimes and offenses; response to State v. Williams, 2020 Ga. LEXIS 85; provisions

GA - HB109 Child Victim Protection Act of 2021; enact

GA - HB383 State government; certain contracts; Israel; provisions

GA - SB332 "Inform Consumers Act" enact

GA - HB624 South Georgia Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide

GA - SB485 Statute of Frauds; agreements with a value in excess of $10,000.00 shall be in writing; provide

GA - SB493 Time-Share Projects and Programs; nonjudicial foreclosure of time-share estates; authorize

GA - SB500 Commerce; a litigation bar on governmental entities regarding certain statewide opioid litigation; provide

GA - SB506 "PROTECT Children Act of 2022"; enact

GA - SB533 Public Disclosure; public disclosure of certain public records pertaining to state employees; remove an exemption

GA - HB1361 Civil practice; Attorney General is to be served and heard in defense of all Acts of the General Assembly when challenged in any court action; clarify

GA - SB531 Eminent Domain; alternative process for a county, municipality, or consolidated government to condemn certain blighted properties; provide

GA - HB1274 State government; antisemitism; provide definition

GA - HB1346 Courts; clerks of superior courts; provide for construction

GA - HB1183 Criminal procedure; increase time allotted to try a criminal case in judicial emergencies; provide

GA - HB1377 Income tax; equitable relief regarding failure of employers to comply with revenue provisions regarding employees; authorize private causes of action

GA - SB606 Self-Service Storage Facilities; advertisement and sale of abandoned property; shorten the time

GA - SB634 Muscogee Judicial Circuit; new judicial circuit for the State of Georgia; create

GA - SB9 Courts; the Columbia Judicial Circuit and to be composed of Columbia County; create a new judicial circuit for the State of Georgia

GA - SB92 Controlled Substances; sale to and by minors of drug products containing dextromethorphan; prohibit

GA - SB101 Criminal Records; a judicial procedure for purging a person's involuntary hospitalization information received by the center for the purpose of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System under certain circumstances; provide

GA - SB28 Juvenile Code and Domestic Relations; provisions relating to the protection of children; strengthen, clarify and update

GA - SB32 Public Disclosure; certain personal records of state and federal employees; exempt

GA - SB33 Torts; cause of action against perpetrators for victims of human trafficking; provide

GA - SB34 Domestic Relations; name change; victims of human trafficking may petition; provide

GA - SB136 Arrest by Private Persons; repeal the article in its entirety

GA - SB139 Uniform Civil Forfeiture Procedure Act; seizure of property subject to civil forfeiture only upon a criminal conviction; authorize

GA - SB226 Sale or Distribution of Harmful Materials to Minors; provisions of Code Section 16-12-103 shall be applicable to libraries operated by schools; provide

GA - SB227 Eminent Domain; alternative process for a county, municipality, or consolidated government to condemn certain blighted properties; provide

GA - SB234 "Georgia Uniform Mediation Act"; enact

GA - HB306 Corporations, partnership, and associations; corporations may hold shareholders' meetings by means of remote communication; provide

GA - SB244 Crimes and Offenses; domestic relations; persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes of family violence from receiving, possessing, transporting a firearm; prohibit

GA - SB243 Sexual Offenses; improper sexual contact by employee, agent, or foster parent; revise the offense

GA - SB249 Newton County; new judicial circuit; create; Alcovy Judicial Circuit; composition and terms of court; revise

GA - SB248 Sentence and Punishment; no court shall impose a period of probation that exceeds 60 months; provide

GA - SB254 Crimes and Offenses; comprehensive revisions regarding justification and the use of force; provide

GA - SB257 Georgia Crime Information Center; criminal history record restrictions for certain persons cited with or convicted of certain criminal offenses; provide

GA - SB276 County Law Libraries; authorize the charging and collection of law library fees in county recorders' courts and magistrate courts; allow county governing authorities

GA - HB443 Torts; transfer of structured settlement payment rights; provide new requirements

GA - HB334 Superior courts; clerks; notaries public; provisions

GA - HB94 Crimes and offenses; provide for the crime of theft by possession of stolen mail

GA - HB497 Code Revision Commission; revise, modernize and correct errors or omissions

GA - HB553 State government; participation in hearings by electronic communications; provide

GA - HB548 Social services; reasonable access to records concerning reports of child abuse to the Administrative Office of the Courts; provide

GA - HB322 Juvenile Code; revise definition of sexual exploitation

GA - HB371 Evidence; certain proceedings may be conducted by video conference; provide

GA - HB470 Property; no plans are required when units are not designated by physical structures; provide

GA - HB635 Courts; each judge of the superior court, state court, and probate court and each magistrate shall have authority to perform any lawful judicial act; provide

GA - HB363 Crimes and offenses; protection of elder persons; revise definitions

GA - HB1092 Georgia Women's CARE (Child Care Alternatives, Resources, and Education) Act, enact

GA - SB552 Superior Courts; eighth judge of the superior courts of the Coweta Judicial Circuit; provide

GA - SB551 Superior Courts; penalty for the failure of clerks of the superior court to timely transmit certain required information to the Georgia Crime Information Center; provide

GA - SB543 Wrongful Death; a parent who is determined to be responsible for the homicide of his or her child shall have no right of recovery against the value of the child's life; provide

GA - SB319 "Georgia Constitutional Carry Act of 2021"; enact

GA - SB329 Joint Tort-Feasors; apportionment of awards of damages among one or more persons in certain actions; provide

GA - SB320 Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide

GA - SB359 "Safe and Secure Georgia Act"; enact

GA - HB752 Psychiatric Advance Directive Act; enact

GA - HB56 Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit; superior court; additional judge; provide

GA - SB478 Firearms; use or possession of any handgun in a park, historic site, or recreational area; provisions

GA - SB521 Municipal Corporations; transition of services and facilities from an existing municipality to a newly incorporated municipality; provide

GA - HB1275 Local government; appointment and removal of municipal court judges; revise provisions

GA - HB1088 Property; nonjudicial foreclosure of time-share estates; authorize

GA - SB565 Sentence and Punishment; any time after conviction; defendant convicted of an offense and sentenced as a direct result of being a victim of trafficking for labor or sexual servitude may petition the sentencing court to grant the relief of vacatur; provide

GA - SB577 Traffic Offenses; aggressive driving to the underlying offenses for the offense of homicide by vehicle; add

GA - SB576 Grandparents or Family Members Visitation Rights; provisions regarding visitation actions brought by certain grandparents of minor children; revise

GA - HB974 Property; deeds; require electronic filing

GA - HB961 Torts; authorize apportionment of damages in single-defendant lawsuits; provide for evidence of fault of nonparties

GA - HB1188 Criminal procedure; each act of child molestation charged as a separate offense; provide

GA - SB579 Controlled Substances; minimum sentences imposed for the manufacture, delivery, distribution, etc. shall not be suspended, stayed, probated, deferred, or withheld by the sentencing court; provide

GA - HB1358 Chairman John Meadows Act; enact

GA - HB1390 Labor and industrial relations; right of action against a county or city employer for retaliation; provide

GA - HB1405 The Zoning Procedures Law; revise

GA - HB1354 Wrongful Conviction Compensation Act; enact

GA - HB1068 State government; service of process for state tort claims; revise provisions

GA - HB1528 Commerce and trade; illegal for certain persons to purchase or attempt to purchase, possess, obtain, or sell used, detached catalytic converters; provide

GA - HB1461 Local government; annexation of territory; revise provisions relating to dispute resolution

GA - SB154 Property Owners' Associations; cap on assessments by property owners' associations for certain lots relative to mortgage costs; provide

GA - SB155 Safety Belts; failure to wear a safety belt or safety restraints for children as admissible evidence in civil actions; provide

GA - SB160 Civil Practice; trolling of limitations for tort actions while criminal prosecution is pending; provisions; change

GA - SB163 Judicial Emergency; suspension of statutory speedy trial requirements; provide

GA - SB164 HIV Tests; modernization of HIV related laws to align with science; provide

GA - SB168 Meetings; corporation may hold annual shareholders' meetings and special shareholders' meetings by means of remote communication; provide

GA - SB171 "Safe Communities Act of 2021; enact

GA - SB54 Child Custody Proceedings; judicial discretion in determining the right of a surviving parent; when such surviving parent is criminally charged with the murder or voluntary manslaughter of the other parent; provide

GA - SB85 "Max Gruver Act"; enact

GA - SB185 Revenue and Taxation; all questions of law decided by a court; matters from state board of equalization and refunds and appeals be decided without deference; require

GA - SB189 Civil Practice; separate trials for issues of liability and damage under certain circumstances; provide

GA - SB190 Torts; recovery and admissibility of special damages for medical and health care expenses; provide

GA - SB194 Penalties for Theft in Violation; code sections 16-8-2 through 16-8-9; monetary value of certain stolen property; revise

GA - SB196 Sexual Offenses; offenses of improper sexual contact by employee or agent in the first and second degrees; revise

GA - SB197 Stalking; the definition of "place or places"; revise

GA - SB206 Landlord and Tenant; prospective tenant shall not be refused a rental based on previous eviction during COVID-19 public health emergency; provide

GA - SB214 Governor's Emergency Powers; matters pertaining to firearms and other weapons; restrict use of emergency powers

GA - SB238 Code Of Georgia; enactment of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated; revise provisions

GA - SB242 Grand Juries; state grand jury; creation, selection, composition, compensation, procedures, and term; provide

GA - SB162 Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit; additional judge of the superior court; provide

GA - HB442 Domestic relations; management of social media in parenting plans; provide

GA - SB268 "Second Amendment Preservation Act"; enact

GA - HB272 Juvenile Code; juvenile court to include children who are under 18 years of age; change jurisdiction

GA - HB231 Crimes and offenses; victims of stalking; expand applicability of protective orders

GA - SB312 "Georgia Restoring Justice Act"; enact

GA - SB381 Pimping and Pandering; penalty provisions; increase

GA - SB380 Imputable Negligence; remove vicious or dangerous requirement before an animal owner may be liable for injuries caused by his or her animal

GA - SB378 Reckless Conduct; definition of hazing; expand

GA - SB372 Diseases and Metabolic Disorders; certain requirements relating to vaccination status or possession of immunity passport are unlawful discriminatory practices; provide

GA - SB395 Mountain Judicial Circuit; third judge of the superior courts; provide

GA - SB360 "Colton's Law"; enact

GA - SB354 Annexation; notice to residential tenants; provide

GA - SB382 Child Molestation; misdemeanor convictions for the offense of aggravated child molestation by raising the minimum age of victims from 13 to 14; revise provisions

GA - HB478 Evidence; expert testimony in criminal cases; change rules

GA - SB439 Dispossessory Proceedings; the owner of a property or tenement at issue in a dispossessory proceeding shall be allowed to appear during a trial of the issues individually; provide

GA - SB441 Courts; reestablishment of the Criminal Case Data Exchange Board as an advisory board to The Council of Superior Court Clerks of Georgia; provide

GA - SB448 Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies; peace officer in this state who lawfully arrests an individual with or without a warrant or as the result of a traffic stop shall check such individual's citizenship status; provide

GA - SB471 Sales Under Execution; online public sales under tax levies and executions; authorize

GA - SB501 Sentencing and Imposition of Punishment; resentence a defendant, upon a motion by the prosecuting attorney and upon determining that the interest of justice would not be served by the defendant's continued incarceration, subject to conditions; authorize

GA - SB504 Bonds and Recognizances; the term "bail restricted offense"; redefine

GA - SB499 DNA Sampling, Collection, and Analysis; analysis and collection of DNA of individuals convicted of certain misdemeanor offenses; provide

GA - HB1134 Crimes and offenses; prosecute offenses involving criminal gang activity; provide for concurrent authority

GA - SB590 Official Legal Organ; the designation of a website as the official legal organ; allow

GA - HB1216 Traffic offenses; enhanced penalties for violations of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer; provide

GA - SB599 Reckless Conduct; offense of reckless conduct by discharging a firearm; provide

GA - HB916 Superior and State Court Appellate Practice Act; enact

GA - HB1348 Georgia Smoke-free Air Act; revise

GA - HB1 Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act; enact

GA - HB1234 Juvenile proceedings; right to an attorney for any child receiving extended care services from Department of Family and Children Services; provide

GA - HB1452 Domestic relations; dating violence protective orders; revise a definition

GA - HB1428 Code Revision Commission; revise, modernize, correct errors or omissions

GA - HB895 Criminal procedure; restrictions of the disclosure of personal information of nonsworn employees; provisions

GA - HB1391 Criminal procedure; compensation for public defenders and assistant public defenders; revise

GA - HB1388 Civil practice; alternative procedure for designation of official legal organ; provide

GA - HB689 Georgia Crime Information Center; persons who are victims of an offense of trafficking may petition the clerk of court to have sealed certain criminal history record information; provide

GA - HB274 Courts; certain juvenile court judges; provide salary supplement