GA SB604

When a district attorney is disqualified from a prosecution, the Attorney General must be given first option to take over the case before any other substitute prosecutor is appointed, except in cases of voluntary recusal for specified offenses.

District attorneys may request Attorney General assistance in prosecuting murder, felony murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, and aggravated sexual battery.

Attorney General assistance may also be requested for drug trafficking offenses (cocaine, illegal drugs, marijuana, methamphetamine), offenses involving illegal aliens, and RICO violations.

The law takes effect upon gubernatorial approval and applies to all prosecutions initiated on or after that date.