republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-117.md

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Bill	Department of Human Services; offenses of improper sexual contact by employee or agent in the first and second degrees; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 16, Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 17, Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 35, Title 42, and Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sexual offenses, procedure for sentencing and imposition of punishment, the Georgia Crime Information Center, penal institutions, and general provisions regarding the Department of Human Services, respectively, so as to revise the offenses of improper sexual contact by employee or agent in the first and second degrees; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 117	Georgia SB 117 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Butch Miller Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Dean Burke Jason Anavitarte Jason Anavitarte John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Russ Goodman Steve Gooch	6	20	1	2021-02-09	2021-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/00e93485-408b-41ea-86e9-1b5c89570bfc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a4e08156768b7da1111c0648ddea01d419a71c21613aa05f169e2f142b1dc3f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 117 (2021_22) — Department of Human Services; offenses of improper sexual contact by employee or agent in the first and second degrees; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 16, Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 17, Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 35, Title 42, and Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to sexual offenses, procedure for sentencing and imposition of punishment, the Georgia Crime Information Center, penal institutions, and general provisions regarding the Department of Human Services, respectively, so as to revise the offenses of improper sexual contact by employee or agent in the first and second degrees; 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. As introduced LC 41 2622 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 3017S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 3139S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 48 0427S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. SB 117/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO TABLE ALL BILLS ON RULES CALENDAR — 33–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-09 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-03-03 Senate Tabled
• 2021-03-03 Senate Taken from Table
• 2021-03-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-22 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2021-03-22 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2021-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-31 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2021-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-06 Act 237 executive-signature
• 2021-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00e93485-408b-41ea-86e9-1b5c89570bfc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).