republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-55.md

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Bill	Wiretapping; interception of wire or oral transmissions by law enforcement; change provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to wiretapping, eavesdropping, surveillance, and related offenses, so as to change provisions relating to interception of wire or oral transmissions by law enforcement officers; to change provisions relating to the application and issuance of orders authorizing installation and use of pen register and trap and trace device; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 55	Georgia HB 55 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood B.J. Pak Christian Coomer Matt Ramsey Rich Golick Stacey Abrams	4	16	1	2013-01-15	2013-02-13	openstates	ocd-bill/0eeade57-9c89-4544-b04b-7bd172c51c54	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	de9672b665b111f47ab554cb2311f59ff6ebc1126303342222597e67a084d32b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 55 (2013_14) — Wiretapping; interception of wire or oral transmissions by law enforcement; change provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to wiretapping, eavesdropping, surveillance, and related offenses, so as to change provisions relating to interception of wire or oral transmissions by law enforcement officers; to change provisions relating to the application and issuance of orders authorizing installation and use of pen register and trap and trace device; 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 55/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 5372/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5392S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5392S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• B.J. Pak — primary (person)
• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
• Rich Golick — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-15 House Hopper
• 2013-01-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-01-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-01-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-01-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-01-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-01-31 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2013-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-12 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-13 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-02-13 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-02-13 Act 2 executive-signature
• 2013-02-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0eeade57-9c89-4544-b04b-7bd172c51c54. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).