republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-225.md

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Bill	Criminal Procedure; relieve a surety from liability under certain circumstances	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 6 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to proceedings for forfeiture of bonds or recognizances, so as to relieve a surety from liability under certain circumstances; to change certain provisions relating to remission of forfeiture; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 225	Georgia SB 225 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	David Shafer Jesse Stone	6	16	1	2013-02-27	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/a295d54f-52a7-436b-a90b-a719a29e6752	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4796a1f6dc18e7337ad0b52a5ad1abe372f0a50ff4f3f92189d1ab81a6ca0f01	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 225 (2013_14) — Criminal Procedure; relieve a surety from liability under certain circumstances

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 6 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to proceedings for forfeiture of bonds or recognizances, so as to relieve a surety from liability under certain circumstances; to change certain provisions relating to remission of forfeiture; 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 29 5561ER (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 29 5597ERS (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 29 2161 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 5684ERS/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 225/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-27 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-08 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 342 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a295d54f-52a7-436b-a90b-a719a29e6752. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).