republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-59.md

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Bill	Alarm monitoring services; licensed persons and companies to utilize alarm verification; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for law enforcement officers and agencies, so as to require persons and companies licensed to provide alarm monitoring services to utilize alarm verification in order to preserve valuable municipal and county law enforcement and firefighter resources; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 59	Georgia HB 59 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Kevin Cooke Lynne Riley Tom Taylor	2	15	1	2013-01-15	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/d91e68ca-1907-4557-a855-b63af8abfb0e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	47b8ba2c578cd26213c294d0342a689c295915d7a50a750a1635c14ef102ba0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 59 (2013_14) — Alarm monitoring services; licensed persons and companies to utilize alarm verification; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for law enforcement officers and agencies, so as to require persons and companies licensed to provide alarm monitoring services to utilize alarm verification in order to preserve valuable municipal and county law enforcement and firefighter resources; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide 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 59/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 35 2753/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 157–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kevin Cooke — primary (person)
• Lynne Riley — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — 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
• 2013-02-06 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-12 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 235 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d91e68ca-1907-4557-a855-b63af8abfb0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).