republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-8.md

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Bill	Crimes and Offenses: children who have been sexually exploited; make provisions; create Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund Commission	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 9, Chapter 21 of Title 15, Title 16, and Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to limitations of actions, payment and disposition of fines and forfeitures, crimes and offenses, and children and youth services, respectively, so as to make provisions for children who have been sexually exploited; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and contingent effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 8	Georgia SB 8 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Butch Miller Gloria Butler Judson Hill Renee Unterman	7	17	1	2014-12-12	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/309d3950-dccd-4168-ba91-ae2ec8e07387	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	356cf24f2a198d5f6d1f15df78a328500b1d59b8493d37ec1581a007b4a8f921	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 8 (2015_16) — Crimes and Offenses: children who have been sexually exploited; make provisions; create Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund Commission

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 9, Chapter 21 of Title 15, Title 16, and Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to limitations of actions, payment and disposition of fines and forfeitures, crimes and offenses, and children and youth services, respectively, so as to make provisions for children who have been sexually exploited; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and contingent 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 6154 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 29 6353S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 29 2345 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 6629S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 8 Prefile (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 8/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 52–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-12-12 Senate Prefiled introduction
• 2015-01-13 Senate Hopper
• 2015-01-14 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
• 2015-02-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-12 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-18 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Act 95 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/309d3950-dccd-4168-ba91-ae2ec8e07387. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).