republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-118.md

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Bill	Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false alarm; revise offense	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to revise the offense of transmitting a false alarm; to provide for the offense of making an unlawful request for emergency service assistance; to provide for definitions; to provide for criminal penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 118	Georgia HB 118 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Bill Hitchens Eddie Lumsden Marc Morris Marcus Wiedower Micah Gravley Wes Cantrell	5	16	1	2019-01-30	2019-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/68806086-d623-4cfa-bc4a-f18d4dbbdfa9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e37679eea9f8aea63acfc5c5e90850d73e7f5f3e2650553ff13f47139cc9407c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 118 (2019_20) — Crimes and offenses; transmitting a false alarm; revise offense

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to revise the offense of transmitting a false alarm; to provide for the offense of making an unlawful request for emergency service assistance; to provide for definitions; to provide for criminal penalties; 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 118/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 41 1631/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 1894S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 1894S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 41 2021S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 151–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Marc Morris — primary (person)
• Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
• Micah Gravley — primary (person)
• Wes Cantrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-30 House Hopper
• 2019-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-11 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-04-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-04-28 Act 73 executive-signature
• 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68806086-d623-4cfa-bc4a-f18d4dbbdfa9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).