republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-872.md

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Bill	Evidence; privileged communication between law enforcement and peer counselors under certain circumstances; create	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to privileges, so as to create a privileged communication between law enforcement officers and peer counselors under certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 872	Georgia HB 872 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Bill Hitchens Eddie Lumsden Terry Rogers Tom Kirby Tommy Benton	2	19	1	2014-01-28	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/19973dc8-1ca7-48e4-b79b-846bb3e05cc2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	34585d577369d0aaf6abc98364f6fc4291ec7d4819a6f0491eab96e896cafa98	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 872 (2013_14) — Evidence; privileged communication between law enforcement and peer counselors under certain circumstances; create

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to privileges, so as to create a privileged communication between law enforcement officers and peer counselors under certain circumstances; to provide for definitions; to provide for exceptions; 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 872/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 5812ER/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 160–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Terry Rogers — primary (person)
• Tom Kirby — primary (person)
• Tommy Benton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-28 House Hopper
• 2014-01-31 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-05 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2014-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-03-07 Senate Withdrawn & Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2014-03-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-12 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-18 Senate Tabled
• 2014-03-18 Senate Taken from Table
• 2014-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-26 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-17 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-17 Act 542 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19973dc8-1ca7-48e4-b79b-846bb3e05cc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).