republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-941.md

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Bill	Courts; review of incidents involving a peace officer's use of deadly force that results in death or serious bodily injury; provide for procedure	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 15, Chapter 7 of Title 17, and Chapter 11 of Title 45 of the O.C.G.A., relating to juries, pretrial proceedings, and miscellaneous offenses concerning public officers and employees, respectively, so as to provide for procedure for review of incidents involving a peace officer's use of deadly force that results in death or serious bodily injury; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 941	Georgia HB 941 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood B.J. Pak Rich Golick Stacey Abrams	5	16	1	2016-02-08	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/83160147-0731-422d-9db0-51eca41d7150	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2803508e452f7933a5e1c4fbaae7a69d9fff0f75dc0a7d4ff886b2d11812d046	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 941 (2015_16) — Courts; review of incidents involving a peace officer's use of deadly force that results in death or serious bodily injury; provide for procedure

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 15, Chapter 7 of Title 17, and Chapter 11 of Title 45 of the O.C.G.A., relating to juries, pretrial proceedings, and miscellaneous offenses concerning public officers and employees, respectively, so as to provide for procedure for review of incidents involving a peace officer's use of deadly force that results in death or serious bodily injury; 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 941/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 6900ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 6931ERS/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6931ERS/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 29 7111ERS (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 House Hopper
• 2016-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-23 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-05 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 350 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83160147-0731-422d-9db0-51eca41d7150. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).