---
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).