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Judiciary committee advances several bills to Rules, including mugshot restriction and standardized peace-officer oath
Summary
The Georgia House Judiciary Committee approved several bills and advanced them to the Rules calendar, including measures on family-relationship language, prosecutor pay, removal of booking photos from pay-for-service sites, and standardized peace-officer oaths.
The Georgia House Judiciary Committee acted on a sequence of bills during a single meeting, approving multiple measures for referral to the Rules calendar.
House Bill 57: Representative (unnamed speaker) said HB 57 "amends the law of Georgia to add grandparents, step grandparent relationship." The committee moved the bill forward with no recorded amendments.
House Bill 35: Representative Jordan Ridley presented HB 35, described as increasing pay for special prosecutors and staff with a provision for inflation adjustment. Members said they had seen the bill before and the committee moved it forward.
House Bill 10: Representative Kim Sco Field presented HB 10, which removes booking photos and mugshots from pay-for-service websites for people not convicted, with a media carve-out for newsworthy images. The committee approved the bill as amended and sent it to Rules.
House Bill 285: The sponsor described HB 285 as creating a procedure to purge someone involuntarily committed to a mental health hospital from the criminal background checklist via a manual procedure rather than an automatic computer purge. The committee approved the bill.
House Bill 384: Representative Devin Sebas presented HB 384 to standardize the oath of office taken by peace officers across Georgia; the committee approved the bill.
Procedural notes: Several items were taken quickly; for bills with minimal discussion the committee used standard motion-to-pass procedures and recorded "You're on the rules" to indicate referral to the Rules calendar. Two bills discussed at greater length in the meeting—House Bill 675 (material support of terrorism) and House Bill 464 (victim immunity)—are reported separately with substantive debate and amendments.
