republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-132.md

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Bill	Insanity and Mental Incapacity; hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insanity and mental incapacity, so as to require a hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; to provide for the release of reports of such evaluations; to establish different procedures in cases where the subject has been accused only of one or more nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, including automatic dismissal in some cases, subject to exceptions; to provide for such different procedures and such exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 132	Georgia SB 132 (2025_26)	bill	CRIMINAL PROCEDURE	enacted	Ben Watson Brian Strickland Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson Tonya Anderson	5	18	3	2025-02-10	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/6362c5e5-fa34-4174-89f8-5d6f4a28438f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0a272dc5ba37c043575eff1a6895775634fb745d4b71aa7a3a6afa7e8d0aad0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 132 (2025_26) — Insanity and Mental Incapacity; hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 6 of Chapter 7 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insanity and mental incapacity, so as to require a hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; to provide for the release of reports of such evaluations; to establish different procedures in cases where the subject has been accused only of one or more nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, including automatic dismissal in some cases, subject to exceptions; to provide for such different procedures and such exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and 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 49 2133 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 49 2240S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 49 2357S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 132/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #469 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 50–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #390 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 142–24 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #209 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Tonya Anderson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2025-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-14 Act 288 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6362c5e5-fa34-4174-89f8-5d6f4a28438f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).