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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Governor's Office of Public Safety Support; create"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to privileges, so as to provide for privileged communications between public safety officers and peer counselors; to amend Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public officers and employees, so as to create the Governor's Office of Public Safety Support; to provide for a director; to provide for responsibilities of the office; to provide for office space, staff, supplies, and materials; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date based on funding; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 703"
+citation: "Georgia HB 703 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Andrew Welch", "Bill Hitchens", "Gloria Frazier", "Jodi Lott"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-01-18"
+last_action: "2018-05-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/662e6d1b-8214-423b-b938-a8cec4a63965"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "217fdc59e38b04345fea2bb071239ad974df7c9d1bd9eebcefbf27491e01ca42"
+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 703 (2017_18) — Governor's Office of Public Safety Support; create
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to privileges, so as to provide for privileged communications between public safety officers and peer counselors; to amend Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to public officers and employees, so as to create the Governor's Office of Public Safety Support; to provide for a director; to provide for responsibilities of the office; to provide for office space, staff, supplies, and materials; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for a contingent effective date based on funding; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **172–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alan Powell — primary (person)
+- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Gloria Frazier — primary (person)
+- Jodi Lott — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-18** House Hopper
+- **2018-01-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-05** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-12** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `withdrawal, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-02-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2018-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-07** Act 439 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/662e6d1b-8214-423b-b938-a8cec4a63965`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+