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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Failure to Provide Notice Not Rendering Responsible Person Liable; victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; allow"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-17-15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the failure to provide notice not rendering responsible person liable or comprising a basis for error, the chapter not conferring standing, existing rights not affected, and waiver of rights by victim, so as to allow a victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 127"
+citation: "Georgia SB 127 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "David Shafer", "Ellis Black", "Greg Kirk", "Jesse Stone", "John Albers", "John Kennedy", "Lee Anderson", "Michael Williams", "Mike Dugan", "P. K. Martin IV", "William Ligon, Jr."]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02ee467f-5843-48d3-bafa-e08cfe882cba"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "03a289dbc035a3b031e11cc38741f949f0f9e391ce8b77e0fb58fc519ac2cce6"
+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 127 (2017_18) — Failure to Provide Notice Not Rendering Responsible Person Liable; victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; allow
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-17-15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the failure to provide notice not rendering responsible person liable or comprising a basis for error, the chapter not conferring standing, existing rights not affected, and waiver of rights by victim, so as to allow a victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **51–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
+- David Shafer — primary (person)
+- Ellis Black — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
+- John Albers — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
+- Michael Williams — primary (person)
+- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
+- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
+- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-07** Senate Hopper
+- **2017-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-24** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-27** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Act 468 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02ee467f-5843-48d3-bafa-e08cfe882cba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+