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GA HB931

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/13/2018

Primary Sponsor

Park Cannon

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Origin

House of Representatives

2017-2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Georgia Code Section 16-5-2 to explicitly exclude the discovery or disclosure of a victim's sexual orientation or gender identity from qualifying as "serious provocation" in voluntary manslaughter cases
  • Effectively bars defendants from using the so-called "gay panic" or "trans panic" defense to reduce a murder charge to voluntary manslaughter
  • Updates gendered language in the voluntary manslaughter statute, replacing "he" with "such person"
  • Sponsored by Representatives Cannon (58th), Dreyer (59th), Shannon (84th), Drenner (85th), and Beasley-Teague (65th)

Legislative Description

Crimes and offenses; disclosure of individual's sexual orientation or gender identity as being serious provocation in the context of voluntary manslaughter; exclude

Last Action

House Second Readers

2/15/2018

Full Bill Text

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