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Bill	Bails, Bonds; human trafficking as a bailable offense; add the offense	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-6-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to when offenses bailable, procedure, schedule of bails, and appeal bonds, so as to add the offense of human trafficking as a bailable offense; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 461	Georgia SB 461 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Billy Hickman Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Carden Summers Chuck Payne Chuck Hufstetler Clint Dixon Donzella James Ed Harbison Emanuel Jones Frank Ginn Greg Dolezal Harold Jones II Jason Anavitarte John Albers John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Matt Brass Max Burns Mike Dugan Nikki Merritt Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Valencia Seay	3	15	1	2022-02-03	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0049652c-b882-4f40-bbb4-58c8b17dedfd	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9c1cb79b4f7aa24675de57d4044693ce3289b72bf8b594df4341c01c417637c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 461 (2021_22) — Bails, Bonds; human trafficking as a bailable offense; add the offense

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-6-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to when offenses bailable, procedure, schedule of bails, and appeal bonds, so as to add the offense of human trafficking as a bailable offense; 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 0466-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 461/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Donzella James — primary (person)
• Ed Harbison — primary (person)
• Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Nikki Merritt — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-03 Senate Hopper
• 2022-02-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-02-15 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-02-17 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-28 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-28 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Act 795 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0049652c-b882-4f40-bbb4-58c8b17dedfd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).