republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-271.md

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Bill	Individual's criminal history record information; revise definitions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-3-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to review of individual's criminal history record information, definitions, and privacy considerations, so as to revise definitions; to clarify provisions relating to record restriction involving certain felony offenses; to change provisions relating to the application of the Code section to arrests occurring prior to July 1, 2013; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 271	Georgia HB 271 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Dustin Hightower Edward Lindsey Jay Neal John Meadows Mary Oliver Stacey Abrams	7	19	1	2013-02-08	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/54ad717e-a318-4f7c-ba44-ae48a58f2670	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	875eede079e86f2952ad3ad1a37616611fb283eff7dde02a2b9669caca569707	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 271 (2013_14) — Individual's criminal history record information; revise definitions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-3-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to review of individual's criminal history record information, definitions, and privacy considerations, so as to revise definitions; to clarify provisions relating to record restriction involving certain felony offenses; to change provisions relating to the application of the Code section to arrests occurring prior to July 1, 2013; 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 271/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 5434/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5536S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5536S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. SCSFA to HB 271 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 25 6400S (committee substitute) — source
7. Sen floor amend 1 AM 25 1334 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dustin Hightower — primary (person)
• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Jay Neal — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-08 House Hopper
• 2013-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-18 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2014-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-27 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-22 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-22 Act 577 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54ad717e-a318-4f7c-ba44-ae48a58f2670. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).