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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Corrections, Department of; employees serving as certified peace officers may retain their weapons under certain circumstances; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Board of Corrections and the Department of Corrections, so as to provide that employees of the Department of Corrections serving as certified peace officers may retain their weapons under certain circumstances; to authorize the Board of Corrections to promulgate rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 482"
+citation: "Georgia HB 482 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Calvin Hill", "Debbie Buckner", "Emory Dunahoo", "Gerald Greene", "Jay Neal", "Rusty Kidd"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-02-25"
+last_action: "2013-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f774f431-9ec2-4f07-9349-3fb6c4cd0c4e"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "a2fbbff1cc1d7499ff2b659bd73a244f8dc0f21dbece88bd4f4e5c706621bc3f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 482 (2013_14) — Corrections, Department of; employees serving as certified peace officers may retain their weapons under certain circumstances; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 42 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Board of Corrections and the Department of Corrections, so as to provide that employees of the Department of Corrections serving as certified peace officers may retain their weapons under certain circumstances; to authorize the Board of Corrections to promulgate rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 482/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137100.pdf)
+2. **LC 35 2961S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133431.pdf)
+3. **LC 35 2961S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132894.pdf)
+4. **LC 36 2264/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132285.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **177–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Calvin Hill — primary (person)
+- Debbie Buckner — primary (person)
+- Emory Dunahoo — primary (person)
+- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
+- Jay Neal — primary (person)
+- Rusty Kidd — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-02-25** House Hopper
+- **2013-02-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2013-02-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2013-02-28** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-05** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2013-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2013-03-22** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-26** Senate Tabled
+- **2013-03-28** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2013-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2013-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2013-04-18** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2013-04-18** Act 22 `executive-signature`
+- **2013-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f774f431-9ec2-4f07-9349-3fb6c4cd0c4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+