republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-831.md

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Bill	"Protecting Guardmen's Employment Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 4 of Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to rights, privileges, and prohibitions for certain military personnel, so as to require that private employers reemploy certain members of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who have been discharged or suspended from employment by his or her employer due to being called into active state service; to provide a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 831	Georgia HB 831 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bill Hitchens Calvin Smyre Carolyn Hugley Richard Smith Sandra Scott Stacey Abrams	4	15	1	2016-01-25	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/20f85f94-5346-4d5e-9e03-dc7645b4c071	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c459c7711fd09526f25187106c25bfbe249485b25feaae36814a3721a6c9e559	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 831 (2015_16) — "Protecting Guardmen's Employment Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 4 of Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to rights, privileges, and prohibitions for certain military personnel, so as to require that private employers reemploy certain members of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who have been discharged or suspended from employment by his or her employer due to being called into active state service; to provide 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 831/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 43 0232/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 43 0301S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 43 0301S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Calvin Smyre — primary (person)
• Carolyn Hugley — primary (person)
• Richard Smith — primary (person)
• Sandra Scott — primary (person)
• Stacey Abrams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-25 House Hopper
• 2016-01-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-01-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-16 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-16 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 454 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20f85f94-5346-4d5e-9e03-dc7645b4c071. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).