---
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).