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type: "Bill"
title: "\"Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act\""
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 9, 15, 16, 17, and 41 of the O.C.G.A., relating to civil practice, courts, crimes and offenses, criminal procedure, and nuisances, respectively, so as to provide additional safeguards and protections against human trafficking; to authorize DFCS to provide care and supervision to children who are victims of human trafficking; to expand prohibitions against trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to conform certain cross-references; to provide an effective date and for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "SB 158"
citation: "Georgia SB 158 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Brian Strickland", "Butch Miller", "Mike Dugan", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a4fe822-4450-4de3-a644-ade815bc4937"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "93ab68b583f9518c34de6876ea2549a0f7ebb3d7c33d6bb1b71a7d7f755b8c38"
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 SB 158 (2019_20) — "Anti-Human Trafficking Protective Response Act"
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 9, 15, 16, 17, and 41 of the O.C.G.A., relating to civil practice, courts, crimes and offenses, criminal procedure, and nuisances, respectively, so as to provide additional safeguards and protections against human trafficking; to authorize DFCS to provide care and supervision to children who are victims of human trafficking; to expand prohibitions against trafficking of persons for labor or sexual servitude; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to conform certain cross-references; to provide an effective date and for applicability; 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. **As Introduced LC 28 9230ER** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182406.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183453.pdf)
3. **LC 48 0125S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185527.pdf)
4. **SB 158/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186892.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **540** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-21** Senate Hopper
- **2019-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-18** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-18** Act 30 `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/6a4fe822-4450-4de3-a644-ade815bc4937`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).