2025-2026 Regular Session

HB237

Evidence; admissibility of creative or artistic expression evidence at trial; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to relevant evidence and its limits, so as to provide for the admissibility of creative or artistic expression evidence at trial; to provide for a definition; to provide for the presumption of inadmissibility; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Introduced in House
Last status date: March 3, 2026
Last status update: House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
Author: Kasey Carpenter
Co-sponsors: Trey Kelley Eric Bell Tyler Smith Spencer Frye

Legislative progress

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House committee substitute March 4, 2025 House committee reassignment April 4, 2025 House committee substitute March 3, 2026

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Committee referrals

February 5, 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.

March 3, 2026
House House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
April 4, 2025
House House Withdrawn, Recommitted
March 4, 2025
House House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
February 6, 2025
House House Second Readers
February 5, 2025
House House First Readers
February 4, 2025
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 1955717
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB237.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00