Bill Commons

GA HB 434

withdrawn

Crimes and offenses; offense of selling a child for financial gain; provide

Georgia · 2025_26 · lower

Description

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to offenses against public health and morals, so as to provide for the offense of selling a child for financial gain; to provide for a definition; to provide for a penalty; to provide for limitations; to provide for a cause of action; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to adoption, so as to provide for conforming cross references; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Introduced
2025-02-12
Status date
—
Latest action
2025-04-04 — House Withdrawn, Recommitted
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Mandi Ballingerprimary
  • Beth Campprimary
  • Carmen Riceprimary
  • Angie O'Steenprimary
  • Karen Mathiakprimary
  • Kimberly Newprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-12

    House Hopper

    introduction

  2. 2025-02-13

    House First Readers

    reading-1

  3. 2025-02-18

    House Second Readers

    reading-2

  4. 2025-02-27

    House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute

    committee-passage-favorable

  5. 2025-04-04

    House Withdrawn, Recommitted

    referral-committee,withdrawal

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/70293

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:19:40.450420Z

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=GA&identifier=HB 434. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.
  • Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.