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Bill	Invasion of Privacy; prohibition on electronically transmitting or posting nude or sexually explicit photographs or videos for purposes of harassing the depicted person; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to invasion of privacy, so as to revise the prohibition on electronically transmitting or posting nude or sexually explicit photographs or videos for purposes of harassing the depicted person; to provide for an increased penalty for the electronic transmission or posting to a web page that is accessible to the general public; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 78	Georgia SB 78 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Elena Parent Gloria Butler Harold Jones II Michelle Au Sally Harrell Sonya Halpern Tonya Anderson	6	19	1	2021-02-02	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bcced748-9071-47fe-9ec0-c13317876ab3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	47283c01e64ec66d8ba11497b1af3ac47253862dccb69d4ff58a083636c026d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 78 (2021_22) — Invasion of Privacy; prohibition on electronically transmitting or posting nude or sexually explicit photographs or videos for purposes of harassing the depicted person; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to invasion of privacy, so as to revise the prohibition on electronically transmitting or posting nude or sexually explicit photographs or videos for purposes of harassing the depicted person; to provide for an increased penalty for the electronic transmission or posting to a web page that is accessible to the general public; 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 41 2794 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 2977S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 3115S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 41 3148S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 78/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON THE RULES CALENDAR — 32–17 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• Michelle Au — primary (person)
• Sally Harrell — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-02 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-05 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-05 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-05 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-05 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-04 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-04 Act 207 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bcced748-9071-47fe-9ec0-c13317876ab3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).