republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-470.md

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Bill	"Emergency & Public Safety Signal Protection Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to offenses against public order, so as to prohibit the possession, use, operation, manufacture, sale, offer for sale, distribution, or import of signal jammers; to specifically authorize the Attorney General to commence forfeiture proceedings; to provide for exemptions; to provide for definitions; to provide a short title; to provide an effective date; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 470	Georgia SB 470 (2025_26)	bill	CIVIL PRACTICE CRIMES AND OFFENSES (CRIMINAL CODE)	enacted	Chuck Payne Jason T. Dickerson John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Randy Robertson Timothy Bearden	5	16	3	2026-02-06	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5c77a854-3c36-4672-930d-f7e1a8e0bcf8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6d19941199baff9e82e062fbcb47e84f40821e2a09c66aa040a0690027e9a90f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 470 (2025_26) — "Emergency & Public Safety Signal Protection Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to offenses against public order, so as to prohibit the possession, use, operation, manufacture, sale, offer for sale, distribution, or import of signal jammers; to specifically authorize the Attorney General to commence forfeiture proceedings; to provide for exemptions; to provide for definitions; to provide a short title; to provide an effective date; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 49 2523 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 49 2658S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 64 0103S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 470/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #728 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 163–3 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #837 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #593 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Jason T. Dickerson — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-06 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-19 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-27 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-11 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-11 Act 495 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c77a854-3c36-4672-930d-f7e1a8e0bcf8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).