republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-381.md

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Bill	"Georgia First Informer Broadcasters Act"; provide planning for first informer broadcasters; definitions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 38-3-57 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the establishment of a standardized, verifiable, performance based unified incident command system for emergencies, so as to provide planning for first informer broadcasters in the unified incident command system and the Georgia Emergency Operations Plan; to provide a short title; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 381	Georgia SB 381 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Cecil Staton John Albers	3	15	1	2014-02-14	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/912bebd1-6c30-44cc-840c-27f4206a5742	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	482b9c9aaa8247dbb6790bcb6575337f4e74f7cb8e7229639aad2e37db4e2098	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 381 (2013_14) — "Georgia First Informer Broadcasters Act"; provide planning for first informer broadcasters; definitions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 38-3-57 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the establishment of a standardized, verifiable, performance based unified incident command system for emergencies, so as to provide planning for first informer broadcasters in the unified incident command system and the Georgia Emergency Operations Plan; to provide a short title; to provide for definitions; 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. As introduced LC 41 0165 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 381/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 41–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Cecil Staton — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2014-02-14 Senate Hopper
• 2014-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-03-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-03-03 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-03-12 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-24 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-24 Act 614 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/912bebd1-6c30-44cc-840c-27f4206a5742. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).