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type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal procedure; increase amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 5 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to investigation of sexual assault, so as to increase the amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 282"
citation: "Georgia HB 282 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bee Nguyen", "Beth Moore", "Carolyn Hugley", "Debbie Buckner", "Mary Oliver", "Scott Holcomb"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f427ff40-1e9e-45b3-baed-ca56722dc25a"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0eef63470b2bea9e0771efb50dfef31db2863e41dff5fddfd065837d95ae7bc8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 282 (2019_20) — Criminal procedure; increase amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 5 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to investigation of sexual assault, so as to increase the amount of time that law enforcement agencies are required to preserve certain evidence of sexual assault; 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 282/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187572.pdf)
2. **LC 28 8979/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181210.pdf)
3. **LC 28 9223S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183482.pdf)
4. **LC 28 9318S/RCS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184209.pdf)
5. **LC 28 9318S/rcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183991.pdf)
6. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 1983S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185093.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1730** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bee Nguyen — primary (person)
- Beth Moore — primary (person)
- Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
- Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-12** House Hopper
- **2019-02-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** 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`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2019-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
- **2019-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Act 238 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f427ff40-1e9e-45b3-baed-ca56722dc25a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).