republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-482.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 482	Georgia HB 482 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Calvin Hill Debbie Buckner Emory Dunahoo Gerald Greene Jay Neal Rusty Kidd	4	17	1	2013-02-25	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f774f431-9ec2-4f07-9349-3fb6c4cd0c4e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a2fbbff1cc1d7499ff2b659bd73a244f8dc0f21dbece88bd4f4e5c706621bc3f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. LC 35 2961S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 35 2961S/hs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 36 2264/a (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/f774f431-9ec2-4f07-9349-3fb6c4cd0c4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).