republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-477.md

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Bill	Investigation of Family Violence; terminology used in determining whom to arrest; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-4-20.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to investigation of family violence, preparation of written report, review of report by defendant arrested for family violence, and compilation of statistics, so as to revise the terminology used in determining whom to arrest; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 477	Georgia SB 477 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Elena Parent Harold Jones II John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick	4	18	1	2020-03-02	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4d829239-f572-470f-9601-bb0a775dac8e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7282b8618d5bec7699a179be6875cdb97a5d8f86f2f832a1f6b0f4c01e8691e9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 477 (2019_20) — Investigation of Family Violence; terminology used in determining whom to arrest; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-4-20.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to investigation of family violence, preparation of written report, review of report by defendant arrested for family violence, and compilation of statistics, so as to revise the terminology used in determining whom to arrest; 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. As introduced LC 48 0182 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 48 0204S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 477/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE THE RULES CALENDAR — 49–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-03-02 Senate Hopper
• 2020-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Senate Tabled
• 2020-03-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2020-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-06-15 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 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
• 2020-08-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-05 Act 578 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d829239-f572-470f-9601-bb0a775dac8e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).