republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-547.md

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Bill	Offenses of Pimping and Pandering; modify the penalties	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-6-13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to penalties for violating Code Sections 16-6-9 through 16-6-12, so as to modify the penalties for the offenses of pimping and pandering; to provide that all such offenses shall be punishable as felony offenses; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date and for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 547	Georgia SB 547 (2025_26)	bill	CRIMES AND OFFENSES (CRIMINAL CODE)	enacted	Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland John Albers Randy Robertson Rick Williams Timothy Bearden	3	17	2	2026-02-20	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/db566022-45e8-4d26-ab29-1df8d55c9f97	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3ffdae16990323521ef9fb3b86d63797ba8d948f8e66eb4b44a2355e47086f26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 547 (2025_26) — Offenses of Pimping and Pandering; modify the penalties

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-6-13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to penalties for violating Code Sections 16-6-9 through 16-6-12, so as to modify the penalties for the offenses of pimping and pandering; to provide that all such offenses shall be punishable as felony offenses; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date and for applicability; 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 2697 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 547/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #668 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #761 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 166–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-20 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-04 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2026-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-03-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-06 Act 417 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db566022-45e8-4d26-ab29-1df8d55c9f97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).