Georgia Senate Bill 132

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 10 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-11 - Senate Read and Referred
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Insanity and Mental Incapacity; hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; require

Sen. Brian Strickland [R]	Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick [R]	Sen. Ben Watson [R]	Sen. Kim Jackson [D]
Sen. Tonya Anderson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-11	Senate	Senate Read and Referred
2025-02-10	Senate	Senate Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70088
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/231746