republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-827.md

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Bill	Crimes and offenses; livestock theft; increased penalties; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-8-20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to livestock theft, so as to provide for increased penalties; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 827	Georgia HB 827 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Clay Pirkle David Huddleston Leesa Hagan Rob Leverett Robert Dickey Tyler Paul Smith	6	16	4	2023-03-23	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7235d73b-279b-4837-b53f-6933a04812df	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	ae8da9214b596e2dc79bc1c723ceee541c89b1972210a480db9533a32a50de3a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 827 (2023_24) — Crimes and offenses; livestock theft; increased penalties; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-8-20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to livestock theft, so as to provide for increased penalties; 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 827/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 48 0966/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 48 1218S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 48 1218S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen Ctee sub LC 56 0167S (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #675 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 24–30 (fail) · upper
• Senate Vote #676 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–2 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #743 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 159–2 (pass) · lower
• House Vote #542 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 156–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Clay Pirkle — primary (person)
• David Huddleston — primary (person)
• Leesa Hagan — primary (person)
• Rob Leverett — primary (person)
• Robert Dickey — primary (person)
• Tyler Paul Smith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-23 House Hopper introduction
• 2023-03-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2023-03-29 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-21 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-30 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-30 Act 499 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7235d73b-279b-4837-b53f-6933a04812df. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).