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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Safe Schools Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for a school safety and anti-gang endorsement for eligible certificated professional personnel issued by the Professional Standards Commission; to require school safety plans to be submitted to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to require intruder alert drills in all public schools in this state; to require public schools to report completion of such drills to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to provide for parents and guardians to opt their children out of such drills; to provide for a definition; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2023_24"
+identifier: "HB 147"
+citation: "Georgia HB 147 (2023_24)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Chris Erwin", "David Wilkerson", "Jan Jones", "Matt Dubnik", "Will Wade"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-31"
+last_action: "2023-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c484233-628d-44cb-84cf-7f10f5110ea0"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "7eb4fb238eb588c885ba9d5a6341ef60391a910e8313846a4744456b64033d7c"
+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 147 (2023_24) — Safe Schools Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for a school safety and anti-gang endorsement for eligible certificated professional personnel issued by the Professional Standards Commission; to require school safety plans to be submitted to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to require intruder alert drills in all public schools in this state; to require public schools to report completion of such drills to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to provide for parents and guardians to opt their children out of such drills; to provide for a definition; to provide for a short title; 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 147/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/217714.pdf)
+2. **LC 49 1174-EC/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/213152.pdf)
+3. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/217630.pdf)
+4. **Sen floor amend 1A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/217652.pdf)
+5. **Sen floor amend 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/217646.pdf)
+6. **Sen floor amend 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/217632.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Vote #210 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **22–33** (fail) · upper
+- Senate Vote #211 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **21–33** (fail) · upper
+- Senate Vote #214 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **52–3** (pass) · upper
+- Senate Vote #212 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **21–33** (fail) · upper
+- House Vote #86 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **148–20** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #213 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **25–30** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Chris Erwin — primary (person)
+- David Wilkerson — primary (person)
+- Jan Jones — primary (person)
+- Matt Dubnik — primary (person)
+- Will Wade — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-31** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2023-02-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-02** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2023-02-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-08** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-09** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-13** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2023-03-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-04-13** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-04-13** Act 7 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c484233-628d-44cb-84cf-7f10f5110ea0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+