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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Insanity and Mental Incapacity; hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; require"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insanity and mental incapacity, so as to require a hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; to provide for the release of reports of such evaluations; to establish different procedures in cases where the subject has been accused only of one or more nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, including automatic dismissal in some cases, subject to exceptions; to provide for such different procedures and such exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2025_26"
+identifier: "SB 132"
+citation: "Georgia SB 132 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Brian Strickland", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Kim Jackson", "Tonya Anderson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-10"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6362c5e5-fa34-4174-89f8-5d6f4a28438f"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "0a272dc5ba37c043575eff1a6895775634fb745d4b71aa7a3a6afa7e8d0aad0a"
+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 132 (2025_26) — Insanity and Mental Incapacity; hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; require
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insanity and mental incapacity, so as to require a hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; to provide for the release of reports of such evaluations; to establish different procedures in cases where the subject has been accused only of one or more nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, including automatic dismissal in some cases, subject to exceptions; to provide for such different procedures and such exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 LC 49 2133** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/231746.pdf)
+2. **As Passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235641.pdf)
+3. **Committee Sub LC 49 2240S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/234499.pdf)
+4. **LC 49 2357S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/237944.pdf)
+5. **SB 132/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/239593.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Vote #469 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **50–1** (pass) · upper
+- House Vote #390 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **142–24** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #209 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **55–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
+- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
+- Kim Jackson — primary (person)
+- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-10** Senate Hopper `introduction`
+- **2025-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-06** Senate Tabled
+- **2025-03-06** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2025-03-06** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-06** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-28** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2025-04-10** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-14** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-14** Act 288 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6362c5e5-fa34-4174-89f8-5d6f4a28438f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+