republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-337.md

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Bill	Invasion of Privacy; prohibition against the transmission of photography depicting nudity; include falsely created videographic or still images	A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to invasion of privacy, so as to include falsely created videographic or still images of other persons within the prohibition against the transmission of photography or videos depicting nudity or sexually explicit conduct of another person under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 337	Georgia SB 337 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Blake Tillery Brandon Beach Bruce Thompson Burt Jones Butch Miller Chuck Payne Dean Burke Donzella James Ed Harbison Greg Dolezal John Albers John Wilkinson Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Renee Unterman Steve Gooch Tyler Harper William Ligon, Jr. Zahra Karinshak	6	19	1	2020-01-30	2020-08-03	openstates	ocd-bill/39dc023e-91f6-4c42-bc08-7269526d57c3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f9d5447d7386e3c546440195d445ee40ceeac28745be8cd3259d13b2b3241ab0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 337 (2019_20) — Invasion of Privacy; prohibition against the transmission of photography depicting nudity; include falsely created videographic or still images

A Bill to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to invasion of privacy, so as to include falsely created videographic or still images of other persons within the prohibition against the transmission of photography or videos depicting nudity or sexually explicit conduct of another person under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 28 9549 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 46 0287S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 46 0090 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 2 AM 46 0091 (committee substitute) — source
6. SB337/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
• Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-30 Senate Hopper
• 2020-01-31 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-10 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 House Postponed
• 2020-06-20 House Postponed
• 2020-06-22 House Postponed
• 2020-06-23 House Postponed
• 2020-06-24 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-24 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-03 Act 550 executive-signature
• 2020-08-03 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39dc023e-91f6-4c42-bc08-7269526d57c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).