republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-335.md

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Bill	"Safeguarding Adopted Children from Sexual Violence Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-6-22 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to incest, so as to expressly include relationship by adoption; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 335	Georgia SB 335 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Clint Dixon John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Randy Robertson Shawn Still Shelly Echols Steve Gooch	3	15	2	2024-01-08	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0b96275e-f158-4e62-8d9d-489cd1902c67	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1477a00cc736db2d27be585a2dbae531115c887d21c6e0f9cc7fa5f2d4bbfa05	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 335 (2023_24) — "Safeguarding Adopted Children from Sexual Violence Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-6-22 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to incest, so as to expressly include relationship by adoption; to provide for a short title; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 49 1599 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 335/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #454 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #681 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Shelly Echols — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-29 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-01-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-01-31 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-07 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 561 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b96275e-f158-4e62-8d9d-489cd1902c67. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).