republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-304.md

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Bill	Criminal Records; allow for the preservation of a person's involuntary hospitalization information received by Georgia Crime Information	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-3-34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disclosure and dissemination of criminal records to private persons and businesses, resulting responsibility and liability of issuing center, and provision of certain information to the FBI in conjunction with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, so as to allow for the preservation of a person's involuntary hospitalization information received by the Georgia Crime Information Center; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 304	Georgia SB 304 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Elena Parent Harold Jones II	6	19	1	2016-01-28	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/acb6cb04-d0c7-464a-94e3-489bb710df17	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	628b55d4c6195b97e12179e7981615ddd7c3193f426baec36ac340e62cf8a532	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 304 (2015_16) — Criminal Records; allow for the preservation of a person's involuntary hospitalization information received by Georgia Crime Information

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-3-34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to disclosure and dissemination of criminal records to private persons and businesses, resulting responsibility and liability of issuing center, and provision of certain information to the FBI in conjunction with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, so as to allow for the preservation of a person's involuntary hospitalization information received by the Georgia Crime Information Center; 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 LC 41 0590 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 0768S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 7133S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 304/AP* (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor am AM 37 0331 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE — 38–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-29 Senate Tabled
• 2016-02-29 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-02-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub As Amended
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 338 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/acb6cb04-d0c7-464a-94e3-489bb710df17. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).