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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Justice System; comprehensive reform for offenders; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for comprehensive reform for offenders; to amend Title 15 and Chapter 6A of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to courts and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; to amend Title 17, Code Section 24-4-609, Chapter 5 of Title 40, Title 42, and Code Section 43-1-19 of the O.C.G.A., relating to criminal procedure, impeachment by evidence of conviction of a crime, drivers' licenses, penal institutions, and grounds for refusing to grant or revoking professional licenses; to amend Chapter 2 of Title 31 and Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Department of Community Health and public assistance; to amend Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to crimes and offenses; 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 407"
+citation: "Georgia SB 407 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Strickland", "Butch Miller", "Jesse Stone", "John Kennedy", "Lawrence Walker III", "P. K. Martin IV"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-02-08"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d13d671b-313b-4775-8eff-5cc05c514242"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "701d0d7a241f40c75ab2a34020a76906a89defbcec27f1b91ce12bcbf4c38884"
+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 407 (2017_18) — Criminal Justice System; comprehensive reform for offenders; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to provide for comprehensive reform for offenders; to amend Title 15 and Chapter 6A of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to courts and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; to amend Title 17, Code Section 24-4-609, Chapter 5 of Title 40, Title 42, and Code Section 43-1-19 of the O.C.G.A., relating to criminal procedure, impeachment by evidence of conviction of a crime, drivers' licenses, penal institutions, and grounds for refusing to grant or revoking professional licenses; to amend Chapter 2 of Title 31 and Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Department of Community Health and public assistance; to amend Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to crimes and offenses; 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
+
+- ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #1 BY THE SENATOR FROM THE 27TH — **5–47** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
+- Butch Miller — primary (person)
+- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
+- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-08** Senate Hopper
+- **2018-02-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-26** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-23** 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 As Amended
+- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-06** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-07** Act 416 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d13d671b-313b-4775-8eff-5cc05c514242`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+