republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-282.md

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Bill	Criminal procedure; increase amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 5 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to investigation of sexual assault, so as to increase the amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 282	Georgia HB 282 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bee Nguyen Beth Moore Carolyn Hugley Debbie Buckner Mary Oliver Scott Holcomb	6	18	1	2019-02-12	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f427ff40-1e9e-45b3-baed-ca56722dc25a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0eef63470b2bea9e0771efb50dfef31db2863e41dff5fddfd065837d95ae7bc8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 282 (2019_20) — Criminal procedure; increase amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 5 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to investigation of sexual assault, so as to increase the amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault; 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 282/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 8979/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 28 9223S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 28 9318S/RCS (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 28 9318S/rcs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 41 1983S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 173–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bee Nguyen — primary (person)
• Beth Moore — primary (person)
• Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
• Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Scott Holcomb — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-12 House Hopper
• 2019-02-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-29 Senate Tabled
• 2019-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2019-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-11 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-07 Act 238 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f427ff40-1e9e-45b3-baed-ca56722dc25a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).