republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-193.md

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Bill	Crimes and Offenses; family violence battery; change penalty provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-5-23.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to battery, so as to change penalty provisions relating to family violence battery; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 193	Georgia SB 193 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Charlie Bethel Curt Thompson Elena Parent Jesse Stone John Kennedy Joshua McKoon Renee Unterman Valencia Seay	5	16	1	2015-03-02	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0e339494-5fc6-4bc5-8024-b37b848f4c6c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2e34f5e131c02f36c527718676ad85e0981b417f9a69720acd5633d598b8e09a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 193 (2015_16) — Crimes and Offenses; family violence battery; change penalty provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-5-23.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to battery, so as to change penalty provisions relating to family violence battery; to provide for a definition; 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. As introduced LC29 6289 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 29 6856S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 7055S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 193/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Curt Thompson — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Joshua McKoon — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-02 Senate Hopper
• 2015-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-01-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-01-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-15 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 518 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e339494-5fc6-4bc5-8024-b37b848f4c6c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).