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79 lines
4.5 KiB
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Coroners; items of value of the deceased shall not be converted to the coroner/medical examiner's personal use"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to duties of coroner or county medical examiner upon receipt of notice of suspicious or unusual death, authority to embalm body, identification, inventory and disposition of deceased's property, use of deceased's property for evidence, and autopsy when death occurs on state owned property, so as to provide that items of value of a deceased person of which a coroner or medical examiner takes possession shall not be converted to the coroner or medical examiner's personal use; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2013_14"
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identifier: "SB 383"
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citation: "Georgia SB 383 (2013_14)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Butch Miller", "Charlie Bethel", "Hardie Davis", "Jesse Stone"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2014-02-14"
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last_action: "2014-04-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc859ffb-1dcf-447e-87e0-7e280a0e399e"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "34dab4fbb07df92f10fc6ff0a3c4ce8076b49170d5456b41b45cecb170d8967d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia SB 383 (2013_14) — Coroners; items of value of the deceased shall not be converted to the coroner/medical examiner's personal use
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to duties of coroner or county medical examiner upon receipt of notice of suspicious or unusual death, authority to embalm body, identification, inventory and disposition of deceased's property, use of deceased's property for evidence, and autopsy when death occurs on state owned property, so as to provide that items of value of a deceased person of which a coroner or medical examiner takes possession shall not be converted to the coroner or medical examiner's personal use; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **As introduced LC 28 7079** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139700.pdf)
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2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141791.pdf)
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3. **LC 29 6036S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143022.pdf)
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4. **SB 383/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/145023.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **51–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Butch Miller — primary (person)
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- Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
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- Hardie Davis — primary (person)
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- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2014-02-14** Senate Hopper
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- **2014-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2014-02-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2014-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2014-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2014-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2014-03-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2014-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2014-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2014-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2014-03-18** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2014-03-20** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
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- **2014-03-26** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2014-04-24** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2014-04-24** Act 623 `executive-signature`
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- **2014-04-24** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc859ffb-1dcf-447e-87e0-7e280a0e399e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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