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+type: "Bill"
+title: "School Resource Officers; training requirements; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employment and training of peace officers, so as to provide for training requirements for school resource officers; to provide for a definition; to provide for penalties; to provide for rules and regulations by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council for the administration of such training requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 149"
+citation: "Georgia SB 149 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Elena Parent", "Emanuel Jones", "Freddie Sims", "Gail Davenport", "Gloria Butler", "Steve Henson", "Tonya Anderson", "Vincent Fort"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-09"
+last_action: "2017-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3894d9c5-674c-4ee0-897e-d95b535796c3"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "2a65de27691c30bb9e73ce6420e5972adb39886ab03a7c389366e646016db24a"
+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 SB 149 (2017_18) — School Resource Officers; training requirements; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to employment and training of peace officers, so as to provide for training requirements for school resource officers; to provide for a definition; to provide for penalties; to provide for rules and regulations by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council for the administration of such training requirements; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **50–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Elena Parent — primary (person)
+- Emanuel Jones — primary (person)
+- Freddie Sims — primary (person)
+- Gail Davenport — primary (person)
+- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
+- Steve Henson — primary (person)
+- Tonya Anderson — primary (person)
+- Vincent Fort — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-09** Senate Hopper
+- **2017-02-10** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-20** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-24** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-24** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2017-04-06** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Act 243 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3894d9c5-674c-4ee0-897e-d95b535796c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+