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Committee passes bill to count jail time as time served in probation revocation cases
Summary
House Bill 535 would change calculations so time spent in jail awaiting a probation-revocation adjudication counts as time served the same way it does in other sentencing contexts; sponsor said the change corrects a 2023 Court of Appeals decision (Kellum) that produced inconsistent results.
Representative Smith (chair) presented House Bill 535 (LC481478) to address uncertainty created by the 2023 Court of Appeals decision in Kellum. The sponsor said courts and the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) had reached inconsistent results about whether time spent in jail awaiting probation-revocation adjudication counts as time served for subsequent carceral sentences.
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