republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-479.md

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Bill	Firearms by Convicted Felons and First Offender Probationers; each firearm in the possession or attempted possession of certain offenders shall be charged as a separate offense; specify	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-11-131 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to possession of firearms by convicted felons and first offender probationers, so as to specify that each firearm in the possession or attempted possession of certain offenders shall be charged as a separate offense; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 479	Georgia SB 479 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bo Hatchett Butch Miller Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Frank Ginn Jeff Mullis Marty Harbin Max Burns Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Russ Goodman Steve Gooch	4	19	1	2022-02-08	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4595dbf0-12f9-47c9-bf8e-63a8c2adfdcb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c4d850a286a5b2ef7a38431249098daa072cc23d013d7d4ed807c1459127fb19	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 479 (2021_22) — Firearms by Convicted Felons and First Offender Probationers; each firearm in the possession or attempted possession of certain offenders shall be charged as a separate offense; specify

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-11-131 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to possession of firearms by convicted felons and first offender probationers, so as to specify that each firearm in the possession or attempted possession of certain offenders shall be charged as a separate 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 0505-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 39 3261S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 479/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 43–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2022-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-17 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-29 House Third Reading Lost failure, reading-3
• 2022-03-29 House Notice to Reconsider
• 2022-03-30 House Reconsidered
• 2022-04-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-04-01 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-04-25 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-25 Act 647 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4595dbf0-12f9-47c9-bf8e-63a8c2adfdcb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).