On 17 December 2025, the Legal Affairs Committee reviewed, under an expedited procedure, and supported amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code at the II reading.

According to the draft law, the Code will be supplemented with a new legal term — “procedurally incapacitated.” It is further stipulated that if an accused person becomes procedurally incapacitated after the commission of a crime, the substantive hearing of the case shall be suspended or not initiated, upon a party’s motion, for the purpose of the accused’s medical treatment, for a maximum period of three months. Upon expiration of the three-month period, the proceedings shall resume.

Under the draft law, where pre-trial detention has been imposed on the accused as a preventive measure, the term of detention shall not be suspended during the accused’s stay in a medical institution if the motion is initiated by the prosecution. If the motion is initiated by the defence, the term of detention shall be suspended.

As stated by the First Deputy Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee, Tornike Cheishvili, the amendments were drafted in response to a decision of the Constitutional Court of Georgia.

The authors and initiators of the draft law are Members of Parliament: Archil Gorduladze, Tornike Cheishvili, Davit Matikashvili, Rati Ionatamishvili, Aluda Ghudushauri, Guram Macharashvili, Akaki Aladashvili, Tengiz Sharmanashvili, and Aleksandre Tabatadze.