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Bill Crimes and offenses; crimes of gift card theft, gift card forgery, and gift card fraud; provide A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to fraud and related offenses, so as to provide for the crimes of gift card theft, gift card forgery, and gift card fraud; to provide for definitions; to provide for penalties for violations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 HB 447 Georgia HB 447 (2025_26)
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CRIMES AND OFFENSES (CRIMINAL CODE)
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Carter Barrett
Johnny Chastain
Joseph Gullett
Stacey Evans
Todd Jones
4 20 3 2025-02-13 2026-05-12 openstates ocd-bill/c8c84760-490d-4e9b-be00-f70e1191433a http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 939bb8831378fae5647fbb48e453a162305f5c77e6f2f6b7f91916a13f8eca78 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 447 (2025_26) — Crimes and offenses; crimes of gift card theft, gift card forgery, and gift card fraud; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 9 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to fraud and related offenses, so as to provide for the crimes of gift card theft, gift card forgery, and gift card fraud; to provide for definitions; to provide for penalties for violations; 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 447/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 28 0661/a (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 48 1574S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 48 1574S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #912 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 3910 (pass) · upper
  • House Vote #226 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1682 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Vote #939 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 491 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Carter Barrett — primary (person)
  • Johnny Chastain — primary (person)
  • Joseph Gullett — primary (person)
  • Stacey Evans — primary (person)
  • Todd Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-13 House Hopper introduction
  • 2025-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2025-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2025-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2025-03-06 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2025-03-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2025-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
  • 2026-01-12 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2026-01-12 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
  • 2026-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-31 Senate Tabled
  • 2026-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2026-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2026-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2026-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2026-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2026-05-12 Act 627 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c8c84760-490d-4e9b-be00-f70e1191433a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).