History. Code 1981, § 19-13-32 , enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1810, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1186, § 2; Ga. L. 1996, p. 449, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-17/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-1/HB 214; Ga. L. 2012, p. 200, § 1/HB 733; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 5-48/HB 310; Ga. L. 2017, p. 713, § 1/HB 303.
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted “victims of family violence, taking into account recommendations made” for “battered women recommended” in subparagraph (a)(4)(B); substituted “A family violence intervention program, as such term is defined in Code Section 19-13-10” for “Men Stopping Violence” in division (a)(4)(E)(xii); substituted “family” for “domestic” in division (a)(4)(E)(xiii); rewrote subsection (c); substituted “three years” for “two years” in the middle of subsection (d); and added subsection (e).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the amendment by this Act shall apply to sentences entered on or after July 1, 2015.
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For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).
For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).