Georgia Senate Bill 145 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-10 - Senate Read and Referred
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to sexual offenses, so as to revise the offense of rape for applicability to victims across genders, gender identities, and sexual orientations;to amend Code Section 9-3-33.1, Title 15, Title 16, Title 17, Chapter 2 of Title 20, Chapter 4 of Title 24, Title 31, Title 42, and Code Section 49-2-14.1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to actions for childhood sexual abuse, courts, crimes and offenses, criminal procedure, elementary and secondary education, relevant evidence and its limits, health, penal institutions, and overcrowding of prison system as creating state of emergency, paroling inmates to reduce prison system population to capacity and report of inmates paroled; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Sexual Offenses; offense of rape applicability to victims across genders; gender identities and sexual orientations; revise

Sen. Donzella James [D]	Sen. Michael Rhett [D]	Sen. Steve Henson [D]	Sen. Valencia Seay [D]
Sen. Gloria Butler [D]	Sen. Gail Davenport [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-10	Senate	Senate Read and Referred
2017-02-09	Senate	Senate Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/50397
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20172018/164793