2025-2026 Regular Session

SB563

"Juvenile Second Chance Record Confidentiality Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 9 of Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to access to hearing and records relative to the juvenile code, so as to provide for the automatic sealing of files and records in certain circumstances; to provide for exceptions; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Judiciary
Last status date: February 25, 2026
Last status update: Senate Read and Referred
Pending committee: Judiciary
Author: Randal Mangham
Co-sponsors: Kenya Wicks RaShaun Kemp Harold Jones

Open official bill page Latest bill text

Committee referrals

February 25, 2026 · Senate

Judiciary

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 25, 2026
Senate Senate Read and Referred
February 24, 2026
Senate Senate Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2123539
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/SB563.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00