---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law enforcement officers and agencies; analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6A of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to DNA sampling, collection, and analysis, so as to provide for analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; to revise definitions; to change provisions relating to dissemination of information in the data bank; to change provisions relating to expungement of profiles in the data bank; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 470"
citation: "Georgia HB 470 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrew Welch", "Bill Hitchens", "John Corbett", "Martin Momtahan", "Steven Sainz"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/149d87ec-a7a9-432e-98a4-bd815837773e"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2dfc491fd0d1d966231d2dbb02e641880e1c2a65947435c157c9d3818fa56b9e"
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 470 (2019_20) — Law enforcement officers and agencies; analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6A of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to DNA sampling, collection, and analysis, so as to provide for analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; to revise definitions; to change provisions relating to dissemination of information in the data bank; to change provisions relating to expungement of profiles in the data bank; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 470/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187646.pdf)
2. **LC 28 9238/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182713.pdf)
3. **LC 28 9295S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184247.pdf)
4. **LC 28 9295S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183536.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 2034S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186373.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **143–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
- Steven Sainz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-25** House Hopper
- **2019-02-25** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** 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`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2019-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
- **2019-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** 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 70 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-28** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/149d87ec-a7a9-432e-98a4-bd815837773e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).