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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Crimes and Offenses; family violence battery; change penalty provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-5-23.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to battery, so as to change penalty provisions relating to family violence battery; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "SB 193"
+citation: "Georgia SB 193 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charlie Bethel", "Curt Thompson", "Elena Parent", "Jesse Stone", "John Kennedy", "Joshua McKoon", "Renee Unterman", "Valencia Seay"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-03-02"
+last_action: "2016-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e339494-5fc6-4bc5-8024-b37b848f4c6c"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "2e34f5e131c02f36c527718676ad85e0981b417f9a69720acd5633d598b8e09a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia SB 193 (2015_16) — Crimes and Offenses; family violence battery; change penalty provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-5-23.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to battery, so as to change penalty provisions relating to family violence battery; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As introduced LC29 6289** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149683.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156199.pdf)
+3. **Committee sub LC 29 6856S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155735.pdf)
+4. **LC 29 7055S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159860.pdf)
+5. **SB 193/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162202.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
+- Curt Thompson — primary (person)
+- Elena Parent — primary (person)
+- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+- Valencia Seay — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-03-02** Senate Hopper
+- **2015-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-01-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-01-28** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-02-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-02** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-02-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2016-03-30** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-03** Act 518 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e339494-5fc6-4bc5-8024-b37b848f4c6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+