---
type: "Bill"
title: "Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund; provide that General Assembly by law may impose additional penalties or fees for the offenses- CA"
description: "A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that the General Assembly by general law may impose additional penalties or fees for the offenses of prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, pimping, pandering, pandering by compulsion, solicitation of sodomy, masturbation for hire, trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, sexual exploitation of children, and sodomy; to provide for related matters; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SR 7"
citation: "Georgia SR 7 (2015_16)"
classification: ["resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butch Miller", "Gloria Butler", "Judson Hill", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-12-12"
last_action: "2015-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d49e202-2a61-4452-98b9-e516224a7060"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f6f8f45263c9e1e28bb46c18d69d37d3d412f895274b54e5fcc1d555f39b738c"
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 SR 7 (2015_16) — Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund; provide that General Assembly by law may impose additional penalties or fees for the offenses- CA

A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that the General Assembly by general law may impose additional penalties or fees for the offenses of prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, pimping, pandering, pandering by compulsion, solicitation of sodomy, masturbation for hire, trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, sexual exploitation of children, and sodomy; to provide for related matters; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Adopted Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147935.pdf)
2. **As introduced LC 29 6144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145374.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 29 6299S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147463.pdf)
4. **Floor amend 1 AM 29 2346** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147838.pdf)
5. **LC 29 6624S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152271.pdf)
6. **SR 7 Prefile** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145211.pdf)
7. **SR 7/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153974.pdf)

## Votes

- ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BY SUBSTITUTE — **53–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Judson Hill — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2014-12-12** Senate Prefiled `introduction`
- **2015-01-13** Senate Hopper
- **2015-01-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-02-12** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-02-12** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-02-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-31** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2015-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-12** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-12** Act 306 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d49e202-2a61-4452-98b9-e516224a7060`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).