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type: "Bill"
title: "Banking and finance; venue for offense of money laundering; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 11 of Chapter 1 of Title 7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to records and reports of currency transactions, so as to provide for venue for the offense of money laundering; to provide for legislative findings; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to theft, so as to provide for venue for the offense of theft of money held in a financial institution; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "HB 219"
citation: "Georgia HB 219 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bethany Ballard", "Jesse Petrea", "Lauren Daniel", "Rob Leverett", "Scott Hilton", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-02"
last_action: "2023-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27c8aaad-c454-4ed0-a82d-d48a489c4da4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3b8344b44cfe875dda0953e9d5e13be1eb657cf2fb481cc1f513095a85334487"
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 219 (2023_24) — Banking and finance; venue for offense of money laundering; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 11 of Chapter 1 of Title 7 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to records and reports of currency transactions, so as to provide for venue for the offense of money laundering; to provide for legislative findings; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to theft, so as to provide for venue for the offense of theft of money held in a financial institution; to provide for legislative findings; 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 219/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/220385.pdf)
2. **LC 48 0795/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/213603.pdf)
3. **LC 48 0901S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/217213.pdf)
4. **LC 48 0901S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/216737.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #379 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #198 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **172–1** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bethany Ballard — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Lauren Daniel — primary (person)
- Rob Leverett — primary (person)
- Scott Hilton — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-02** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2023-02-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-06** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2023-03-06** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Senate Tabled
- **2023-03-29** Senate Taken from Table
- **2023-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2023-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2023-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Act 345 `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27c8aaad-c454-4ed0-a82d-d48a489c4da4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).