2025-2026 Regular Session

HB214

Evidence; creative and artistic expression evidence is inadmissible at trial; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 24-9-923 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to admissibility of photographs, motion pictures, video recordings, and audio recordings when witness unavailable, so as to provide that creative and artistic expression evidence is inadmissible at trial; to provide for a definition; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary - Non-Civil
Last status date: February 4, 2025
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Judiciary - Non-Civil
Author: Eric Bell
Co-sponsors: Kasey Carpenter Inga Willis Jasmine Clark Yasmin Neal

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February 3, 2025 · House

Judiciary - Non-Civil

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

February 4, 2025
House House Second Readers
February 3, 2025
House House First Readers
January 30, 2025
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1949635
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB214.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00