Insanity and Mental Incapacity; hearing before a court orders an evaluation of the mental competency of an accused person to stand trial; require
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Officially: “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;” Read the full text
2025-2026 regular session
What it does
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 autom
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Where it is
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Senate Hopper · Feb 10, 2025
Senate Read and Referred · Feb 11, 2025
Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Feb 28, 2025
Senate Read Second Time · Mar 3, 2025
Senate Tabled · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Taken from Table · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Third Read · Mar 6, 2025
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Mar 6, 2025
House First Readers · Mar 10, 2025
House Second Readers · Mar 11, 2025
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Mar 28, 2025
House Third Readers · Apr 2, 2025
House Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Apr 2, 2025
Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub · Apr 4, 2025
Senate Sent to Governor · Apr 10, 2025
Senate Date Signed by Governor · May 14, 2025
Act 288 · May 14, 2025
Effective Date · Jul 1, 2025
The numbers
6
sponsors on the bill
Sponsors
Recorded votes
AGREE TO HOUSE SUBSTITUTESenate · 2025-04-04 · yea 50, nay 1, notVoting 3, excused 2
PASSAGEHouse · 2025-04-02 · yea 142, nay 24, notVoting 3, excused 11
PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTESenate · 2025-03-06 · yea 55, nay 0, notVoting 1, excused 0
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