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type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; revise duties"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 and Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board, respectively, so as to revise the duties of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board relative to the board's determination of a sexual offender's risk assessment classification; to provide for definitions; to provide for certain investigators; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 495"
citation: "Georgia HB 495 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Clint Crowe", "Marcus Wiedower", "Rick Williams"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-17"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8867fe9-de3c-4c0f-a512-cc20229e0847"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "4d210f2a439cdef13337a4ebf43028437b24845c356dd656be380a0b1c2bdfde"
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 495 (2021_22) — Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board; revise duties
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 and Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board, respectively, so as to revise the duties of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board relative to the board's determination of a sexual offender's risk assessment classification; to provide for definitions; to provide for certain investigators; 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 495/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202043.pdf)
2. **LC 41 2900/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197893.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **172–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Clint Crowe — primary (person)
- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
- Rick Williams — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-17** House Hopper
- **2021-02-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-03-08** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2021-03-29** Senate Taken from Table
- **2021-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Act 199 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8867fe9-de3c-4c0f-a512-cc20229e0847`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).