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Bill	Coroners; items of value of the deceased shall not be converted to the coroner/medical examiner's personal use	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to duties of coroner or county medical examiner upon receipt of notice of suspicious or unusual death, authority to embalm body, identification, inventory and disposition of deceased's property, use of deceased's property for evidence, and autopsy when death occurs on state owned property, so as to provide that items of value of a deceased person of which a coroner or medical examiner takes possession shall not be converted to the coroner or medical examiner's personal use; 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 383	Georgia SB 383 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Charlie Bethel Hardie Davis Jesse Stone	4	16	1	2014-02-14	2014-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/cc859ffb-1dcf-447e-87e0-7e280a0e399e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	34dab4fbb07df92f10fc6ff0a3c4ce8076b49170d5456b41b45cecb170d8967d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 383 (2013_14) — Coroners; items of value of the deceased shall not be converted to the coroner/medical examiner's personal use

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to duties of coroner or county medical examiner upon receipt of notice of suspicious or unusual death, authority to embalm body, identification, inventory and disposition of deceased's property, use of deceased's property for evidence, and autopsy when death occurs on state owned property, so as to provide that items of value of a deceased person of which a coroner or medical examiner takes possession shall not be converted to the coroner or medical examiner's personal use; 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 28 7079 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6036S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 383/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Hardie Davis — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-14 Senate Hopper
• 2014-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-18 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-24 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-24 Act 623 executive-signature
• 2014-04-24 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc859ffb-1dcf-447e-87e0-7e280a0e399e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).