republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-435.md

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Bill	"The Debbie Vance Act"; court imposing sentence may grant the relief of vacatur for convictions and sentences of defendants; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 and Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to procedure for sentencing and imposition of punishment and the Georgia Crime Information Center, respectively, so as to provide that the court imposing sentence may grant the relief of vacatur for convictions and sentences of defendants who obtained such convictions and sentences as a direct result of being victims of trafficking for labor or sexual servitude; 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	SB 435	Georgia SB 435 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Brian Strickland Elena Parent John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Zahra Karinshak	4	16	1	2020-02-24	2020-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/78f14aba-94c8-4384-b420-6762678c8b7f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d965fcd2ecb3b0b94786324fde9b3deed482fa018b3c0aaaa08e12c475d877e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 435 (2019_20) — "The Debbie Vance Act"; court imposing sentence may grant the relief of vacatur for convictions and sentences of defendants; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 and Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to procedure for sentencing and imposition of punishment and the Georgia Crime Information Center, respectively, so as to provide that the court imposing sentence may grant the relief of vacatur for convictions and sentences of defendants who obtained such convictions and sentences as a direct result of being victims of trafficking for labor or sexual servitude; 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. As introduced LC 41 2369-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 2416S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 435/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-24 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-18 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-22 House Postponed
• 2020-06-23 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-23 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 392 executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78f14aba-94c8-4384-b420-6762678c8b7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).