republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-79.md

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Bill	Victim Compensation; expand the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's powers and duties relative to claims	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to victim compensation, so as to expand the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's powers and duties relative to claims for victim compensation; to increase the amount payable for funeral expenses; to enlarge the pool of claimants to include individuals related by marriage; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 79	Georgia SB 79 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Renee Unterman	4	15	1	2015-02-02	2015-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/5ca66cbf-e2b4-4593-88a1-c70632475e7f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a538c0fda10c562bbe2fbaf3d5dcfe59e10848b4246d9c112704560f0f8a88de	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 79 (2015_16) — Victim Compensation; expand the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's powers and duties relative to claims

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to victim compensation, so as to expand the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's powers and duties relative to claims for victim compensation; to increase the amount payable for funeral expenses; to enlarge the pool of claimants to include individuals related by marriage; 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 29 6283ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 29 6354S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 79/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 50–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-02 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-02-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-18 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-27 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-08 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Act 169 executive-signature
• 2015-05-06 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ca66cbf-e2b4-4593-88a1-c70632475e7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).