republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-198.md

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Bill	Jason Flatt Act-Georgia; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to require annual suicide prevention education training for certificated school system personnel; to provide that no cause of action is created; to provide that no duty of care is created; to provide a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 198	Georgia HB 198 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Brooks Coleman Joyce Chandler Katie Dempsey Pat Gardner Sharon Cooper Tom Dickson	2	15	1	2015-02-02	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/61dfbe34-f685-42af-a73a-0c7451931bf9	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1f432221756f7daae938e9d8d377e575ad409309a1232fe0409e0819ec082cda	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 198 (2015_16) — Jason Flatt Act-Georgia; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to require annual suicide prevention education training for certificated school system personnel; to provide that no cause of action is created; to provide that no duty of care is created; to provide a short title; to provide for legislative findings; 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 198/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5849/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Joyce Chandler — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Pat Gardner — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
• Tom Dickson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-02 House Hopper
• 2015-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-12 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-19 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-19 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-23 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Act 91 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61dfbe34-f685-42af-a73a-0c7451931bf9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).