republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-207.md

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Bill	Probation of first offenders; person disqualified from employment when discharged as felony offender; add private home care providers to list	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 8 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to probation of first offenders, so as to add private home care providers to the list of persons who may be disqualified from employment when discharged as a felony offender under a first offender plea; 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	SB 207	Georgia SB 207 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach David Shafer Jesse Stone John Albers Joshua McKoon Renee Unterman	5	18	1	2013-02-25	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/eebb84a5-54aa-4d0f-82d3-2835b3d1c099	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3d0e0d41d4b399d10017c5b90ffc3b65033d34b2661dd0005d17eadcbb32015e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 207 (2013_14) — Probation of first offenders; person disqualified from employment when discharged as felony offender; add private home care providers to list

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 8 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to probation of first offenders, so as to add private home care providers to the list of persons who may be disqualified from employment when discharged as a felony offender under a first offender plea; 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. As introduced LC 35 2933 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5688S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5877S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 207/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 47–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-25 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-28 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2014-02-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-27 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-22 Act 583 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eebb84a5-54aa-4d0f-82d3-2835b3d1c099. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).