republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-279.md

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Bill	Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; include Commissioners of Juvenile Justice/Natural Resources as voting members	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 include the commissioner of juvenile justice and the commissioner of natural resources as voting members of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 279	Georgia SB 279 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Frank Ginn Harold Jones II John Albers Judson Hill Michael Williams Mike Dugan Tyler Harper Valencia Seay William Ligon, Jr.	3	15	1	2016-01-21	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/cf9e5535-f032-4504-a613-033b40f2c279	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0c1b8f71f057ad754a94ed8cc714c46a0f28880b1c99097df70f8f71e3a0ffaa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 279 (2015_16) — Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; include Commissioners of Juvenile Justice/Natural Resources as voting members

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 include the commissioner of juvenile justice and the commissioner of natural resources as voting members of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; 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 0595 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 279/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 49–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Michael Williams — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Valencia Seay — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-21 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-22 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-01-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-01-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 372 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf9e5535-f032-4504-a613-033b40f2c279. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).