republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-417.md

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Bill	Law enforcement officers and agencies; comprehensive regulation of trauma scene cleanup services; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to law enforcement officers and agencies, so as to provide for the comprehensive regulation of trauma scene cleanup services; to provide for definitions; to provide for registration requirements; to provide for qualifications; to provide for penalties for violations; to provide for emergencies; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for exemptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 417	Georgia HB 417 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Bill Hitchens Heath Clark Rick Williams	5	17	1	2019-02-21	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e8439a06-8a4c-4471-a01b-ed0582bd2112	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	09110c6d3436d0b06da351703d3e551391fdce450db73f5ecd356187d8fe1c72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 417 (2019_20) — Law enforcement officers and agencies; comprehensive regulation of trauma scene cleanup services; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to law enforcement officers and agencies, so as to provide for the comprehensive regulation of trauma scene cleanup services; to provide for definitions; to provide for registration requirements; to provide for qualifications; to provide for penalties for violations; to provide for emergencies; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for exemptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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. HB 417/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 9013/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 28 9623S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 28 9623S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 41 1919S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 147–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Heath Clark — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 House Hopper
• 2019-02-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 House Withdrawn, Recommitted withdrawal, referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-02-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-19 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-04 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-04 Act 566 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8439a06-8a4c-4471-a01b-ed0582bd2112. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).