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type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes and Offenses: children who have been sexually exploited; make provisions; create Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund Commission"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 9, Chapter 21 of Title 15, Title 16, and Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to limitations of actions, payment and disposition of fines and forfeitures, crimes and offenses, and children and youth services, respectively, so as to make provisions for children who have been sexually exploited; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and contingent effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Georgia SB 8 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butch Miller", "Gloria Butler", "Judson Hill", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-12-12"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/309d3950-dccd-4168-ba91-ae2ec8e07387"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "356cf24f2a198d5f6d1f15df78a328500b1d59b8493d37ec1581a007b4a8f921"
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 SB 8 (2015_16) — Crimes and Offenses: children who have been sexually exploited; make provisions; create Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund Commission
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 9, Chapter 21 of Title 15, Title 16, and Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the O.C.G.A., relating to limitations of actions, payment and disposition of fines and forfeitures, crimes and offenses, and children and youth services, respectively, so as to make provisions for children who have been sexually exploited; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and contingent effective date; 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 29 6154** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145369.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147987.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 29 6353S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147324.pdf)
4. **Floor amend 1 AM 29 2345** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147852.pdf)
5. **LC 29 6629S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152275.pdf)
6. **SB 8 Prefile** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145209.pdf)
7. **SB 8/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154017.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **523** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Judson Hill — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-12-12** Senate Prefiled `introduction`
- **2015-01-13** Senate Hopper
- **2015-01-14** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-02-12** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-02-12** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-02-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-25** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-31** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2015-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-05** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Act 95 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/309d3950-dccd-4168-ba91-ae2ec8e07387`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).