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Bill	Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; information required to be provided by sexual offenders when they register; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the O.C.G.A., relating to Sexual Offender Registration Review Board, so as to revise the information required to be provided by sexual offenders when they register; to allow a sexual offender who is in a state or privately operated hospice facility, skilled nursing home, or residential health care facility, with the approval of the sheriff of the county where such sexual offender resides, to satisfy the annual registration requirements by registering at any time during the sexual offender's month of birth; to remove the requirement that a sexual offender who resides in a state or privately operated hospice facility, skilled nursing home, or residential health care facility, with the approval of the sheriff of the county where such sexual offender resides, be fingerprinted; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 983	Georgia HB 983 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Bill Hitchens Eddie Lumsden Rick Williams	3	16	1	2020-02-20	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/46e5acc8-680d-4c33-bb4a-80356991ed1d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	95ec4b485585a07d6bc81812b8c4c28e12c4ff2c58e1d2c643d8f32a1475961a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 983 (2019_20) — Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; information required to be provided by sexual offenders when they register; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the O.C.G.A., relating to Sexual Offender Registration Review Board, so as to revise the information required to be provided by sexual offenders when they register; to allow a sexual offender who is in a state or privately operated hospice facility, skilled nursing home, or residential health care facility, with the approval of the sheriff of the county where such sexual offender resides, to satisfy the annual registration requirements by registering at any time during the sexual offender's month of birth; to remove the requirement that a sexual offender who resides in a state or privately operated hospice facility, skilled nursing home, or residential health care facility, with the approval of the sheriff of the county where such sexual offender resides, be fingerprinted; 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 983/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 9625/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Sen ctee sub LC 41 2552S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 House Hopper
• 2020-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-09 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-03-09 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-06-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-06-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-06-18 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-25 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2020-07-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-08-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-08-03 Act 554 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46e5acc8-680d-4c33-bb4a-80356991ed1d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).