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| Bill | Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; revise quorum for transaction of business; provisions | 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 revise the quorum for transaction of business by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; to clarify that certain investigators employed by the council may retain their weapon and badge upon retirement; to repeal the requirement that peace officers who do not perform satisfactorily on the job related academy entrance examination be ineligible to retake the examination for a period of 30 days; to repeal requirements for the training and certification of police chaplains; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2017_18 | HB 867 | Georgia HB 867 (2017_18) |
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0 | 17 | 1 | 2018-02-07 | 2018-07-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/bd679af8-5fb6-4a58-8995-91a650062914 | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | ce4dd92d6b5aa0c2dbc8d533ab338a308579783f831e4e0f1aaebf6a818c4685 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia HB 867 (2017_18) — Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; revise quorum for transaction of business; provisions
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 revise the quorum for transaction of business by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council; to clarify that certain investigators employed by the council may retain their weapon and badge upon retirement; to repeal the requirement that peace officers who do not perform satisfactorily on the job related academy entrance examination be ineligible to retake the examination for a period of 30 days; to repeal requirements for the training and certification of police chaplains; 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.
Votes
- PASSAGE — 167–1 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
- Eddie Lumsden — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Rick Williams — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-02-07 House Hopper
- 2018-02-08 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2018-02-12 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2018-02-15 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2018-02-23 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2018-02-23 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2018-02-26 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2018-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2018-03-12 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2018-03-27 Senate Tabled
- 2018-03-29 Senate Taken from Table
- 2018-03-29 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2018-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted
passage - 2018-04-03 House Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2018-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2018-05-03 Act 386
executive-signature - 2018-07-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd679af8-5fb6-4a58-8995-91a650062914. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).