<P> In 2001, the legislature in Hawaii voted to raise the age of consent from 14 to 16 . </P> <P> In June 2005, a bill was proposed before the General Assembly of Georgia (USA) to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18 . The bill failed, however . </P> <P> Georgia was the most notoriously resistant state to raising its age of consent in the early 1900s . Georgia's age of consent was 10 until 1918, and even then the age of consent was only raised to 14 . Even after raising the age of consent in 1918, Georgia was still the only state in the United States to have an age of consent lower than 16 . Georgia's age of consent remained at 14 until 1995, when a bill proposed by senator Steve Langford to make the age of consent 16 passed . </P> <P> In 2006, following the infamous case of Genarlow Wilson (Wilson v. State), aggravated child molestation was reduced to a misdemeanor with a maximum of one year in prison if the offender was under 19, the victim was either 14 or 15 years old, and the offender is no more than 48 months older than the victim . (Georgia penal code, 16 - 6 - 4). Previously aggravated child molestation (at any age) carried 10--20 years imprisonment regardless of the age difference between the victim and offender . </P>

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