republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-126.md

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Bill	Park rangers; any person obstructing or hindering the lawful discharge of official duties; prohibit	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to provide a definition; to prohibit any person from knowingly and willfully obstructing or hindering any park ranger in the lawful discharge of such park ranger's official duties; to prohibit any person from knowingly and willfully resisting, obstructing, or opposing any park ranger in the lawful discharge of such park ranger's official duties by offering or doing violence to the person of such park ranger; to provide for penalties; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 126	Georgia HB 126 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Carl Rogers Geoff Duncan Kevin Tanner Lee Hawkins Mark Hamilton Mike Dudgeon	4	15	1	2013-01-28	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bc7fdc6a-33c7-4f20-b0dd-05c3bf35c4d8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	50e5a269388b4dd47c13f37d96a6b6972f1e305db77a1257ebb49c4b32382363	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 126 (2013_14) — Park rangers; any person obstructing or hindering the lawful discharge of official duties; prohibit

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to obstruction of public administration and related offenses, so as to provide a definition; to prohibit any person from knowingly and willfully obstructing or hindering any park ranger in the lawful discharge of such park ranger's official duties; to prohibit any person from knowingly and willfully resisting, obstructing, or opposing any park ranger in the lawful discharge of such park ranger's official duties by offering or doing violence to the person of such park ranger; to provide for penalties; 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 126/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 28 6497/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5482S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5482S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 167–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carl Rogers — primary (person)
• Geoff Duncan — primary (person)
• Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Mark Hamilton — primary (person)
• Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-28 House Hopper
• 2013-01-29 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-01-30 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 199 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc7fdc6a-33c7-4f20-b0dd-05c3bf35c4d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).