2025-2026 Regular Session

HB994

Crimes and offenses; riot; provide for a felony penalty

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-11-30 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to riot, so as to provide for a felony penalty; to amend Code Section 17-6-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to when offenses bailable, procedure, schedule of bails, and appeal bonds, so as to include the offense of riot; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary - Non-Civil
Last status date: January 27, 2026
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Judiciary - Non-Civil
Author: Mike Cheokas
Co-sponsors: Emory Dunahoo Charles Cannon Lauren McDonald Eddie Lumsden Steve Tarvin

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Committee referrals

January 16, 2026 · 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.

January 27, 2026
House House Second Readers
January 16, 2026
House House First Readers
January 15, 2026
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2083434
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB994.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00