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Bill Crimes and offenses; victims of stalking; expand applicability of protective orders A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 5 of Title 16 and Article 1 of Chapter 13 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to stalking and granting of relief by superior courts, respectively, so as to expand the applicability of protective orders involving victims of stalking; to revise the definition of family violence to include certain acts between persons through whom a past or present pregnancy has developed or persons in a past or present dating relationship for the granting of protective orders and other relief; to provide for definitions; to require the court to make certain findings prior to granting protective orders alleging dating relationships; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2021_22 HB 231 Georgia HB 231 (2021_22)
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Bonnie Rich
Houston Gaines
Mandi Ballinger
Marcus Wiedower
Spencer Frye
5 18 1 2021-02-01 2021-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/2c22ba9a-3ea0-449f-980b-d779b577a0f7 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 9ce9f5d2ea2c023918dd0da0e6a7dceecd8f618e8f4b81148c48d21261b8d15e 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 231 (2021_22) — Crimes and offenses; victims of stalking; expand applicability of protective orders

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 5 of Title 16 and Article 1 of Chapter 13 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to stalking and granting of relief by superior courts, respectively, so as to expand the applicability of protective orders involving victims of stalking; to revise the definition of family violence to include certain acts between persons through whom a past or present pregnancy has developed or persons in a past or present dating relationship for the granting of protective orders and other relief; to provide for definitions; to require the court to make certain findings prior to granting protective orders alleging dating relationships; 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. HB 231/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 28 0297S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 28 0297S/hs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 41 2822/a (committee substitute) — source
  5. Sen ctee sub LC 41 3167S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1740 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bee Nguyen — primary (person)
  • Bonnie Rich — primary (person)
  • Houston Gaines — primary (person)
  • Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
  • Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
  • Spencer Frye — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-02-01 House Hopper
  • 2021-02-02 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2021-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2021-03-05 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-03-08 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2021-03-08 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2021-03-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2021-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2021-03-29 Senate Tabled
  • 2021-03-29 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2021-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2021-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2021-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2021-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2021-05-10 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2021-05-10 Act 273 executive-signature
  • 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c22ba9a-3ea0-449f-980b-d779b577a0f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).