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| Bill | Law enforcement officers and agencies; analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; provide | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6A of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to DNA sampling, collection, and analysis, so as to provide for analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; to revise definitions; to change provisions relating to dissemination of information in the data bank; to change provisions relating to expungement of profiles in the data bank; 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 470 | Georgia HB 470 (2019_20) |
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5 | 18 | 1 | 2019-02-25 | 2019-04-28 | openstates | ocd-bill/149d87ec-a7a9-432e-98a4-bd815837773e | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 2dfc491fd0d1d966231d2dbb02e641880e1c2a65947435c157c9d3818fa56b9e | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia HB 470 (2019_20) — Law enforcement officers and agencies; analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6A of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to DNA sampling, collection, and analysis, so as to provide for analysis and collection of DNA for individuals charged with a felony offense but sentenced as a first offender or under conditional discharge; to revise definitions; to change provisions relating to dissemination of information in the data bank; to change provisions relating to expungement of profiles in the data bank; 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.
- HB 470/AP* (committee substitute) — source
- LC 28 9238/a (committee substitute) — source
- LC 28 9295S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
- LC 28 9295S/hs (committee substitute) — source
- Sen ctee sub LC 41 2034S (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- PASSAGE — 143–15 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- John Corbett — primary (person)
- Martin Momtahan — primary (person)
- Steven Sainz — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-02-25 House Hopper
- 2019-02-25 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2019-02-26 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2019-03-04 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 - 2019-03-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2019-03-28 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 - 2019-04-28 House Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2019-04-28 Act 70
executive-signature - 2019-04-28 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/149d87ec-a7a9-432e-98a4-bd815837773e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).