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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false alarm; revise offense"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to revise the offense of transmitting a false alarm; to provide for the offense of making an unlawful request for emergency service assistance; to provide for definitions; to provide for criminal penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 118"
+citation: "Georgia HB 118 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Eddie Lumsden", "Marc Morris", "Marcus Wiedower", "Micah Gravley", "Wes Cantrell"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-30"
+last_action: "2019-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68806086-d623-4cfa-bc4a-f18d4dbbdfa9"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e37679eea9f8aea63acfc5c5e90850d73e7f5f3e2650553ff13f47139cc9407c"
+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 HB 118 (2019_20) — Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false alarm; revise offense
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to revise the offense of transmitting a false alarm; to provide for the offense of making an unlawful request for emergency service assistance; to provide for definitions; to provide for criminal penalties; 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. **HB 118/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187559.pdf)
+2. **LC 41 1631/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180171.pdf)
+3. **LC 41 1894S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184076.pdf)
+4. **LC 41 1894S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183679.pdf)
+5. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 2021S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185967.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **151–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
+- Marc Morris — primary (person)
+- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
+- Micah Gravley — primary (person)
+- Wes Cantrell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-30** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-04-28** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-28** Act 73 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68806086-d623-4cfa-bc4a-f18d4dbbdfa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+