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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Failure to Provide Notice Not Rendering Responsible Person Liable; victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; allow"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-17-15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the failure to provide notice not rendering responsible person liable or comprising a basis for error, the chapter not conferring standing, existing rights not affected, and waiver of rights by victim, so as to allow a victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; to provide for related matters; 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: "2017_18"
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identifier: "SB 127"
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citation: "Georgia SB 127 (2017_18)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "David Shafer", "Ellis Black", "Greg Kirk", "Jesse Stone", "John Albers", "John Kennedy", "Lee Anderson", "Michael Williams", "Mike Dugan", "P. K. Martin IV", "William Ligon, Jr."]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2017-02-07"
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last_action: "2019-01-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02ee467f-5843-48d3-bafa-e08cfe882cba"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "03a289dbc035a3b031e11cc38741f949f0f9e391ce8b77e0fb58fc519ac2cce6"
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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 127 (2017_18) — Failure to Provide Notice Not Rendering Responsible Person Liable; victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; allow
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 17-17-15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the failure to provide notice not rendering responsible person liable or comprising a basis for error, the chapter not conferring standing, existing rights not affected, and waiver of rights by victim, so as to allow a victim to file a motion in a criminal case to assert his or her rights; to provide for related matters; 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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## Votes
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- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **51–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
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- David Shafer — primary (person)
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- Ellis Black — primary (person)
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- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
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- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
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- John Albers — primary (person)
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- John Kennedy — primary (person)
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- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
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- Michael Williams — primary (person)
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- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
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- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
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- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-07** Senate Hopper
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- **2017-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-24** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-02-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2018-03-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2018-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2018-03-27** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
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- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2018-05-08** Act 468 `executive-signature`
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- **2019-01-01** 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/02ee467f-5843-48d3-bafa-e08cfe882cba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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