republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-15.md

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Bill	"Keeping Georgia's Schools Safe Act"	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 27 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to loitering at or disrupting schools, so as to require public and private schools to have performed certain threat assessments; to amend Article 9 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center, so as to provide for the center's role in preventing, discovering, responding to, and recovering from threats, warnings, and developing situations regarding any public or private school; to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to property tax exemptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 15	Georgia SB 15 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Brandon Beach Bruce Thompson Butch Miller Chuck Hufstetler Frank Ginn Greg Kirk Jeff Mullis John Albers John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Mike Dugan P. K. Martin IV Randy Robertson Steve Gooch Tyler Harper William Ligon, Jr.	8	15	1	2019-01-15	2019-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/fb657b09-21f3-4075-8a62-1a606fddb917	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	925301ac25c5a26aed3bfe4c76b98e4d617f9195156f29209b5073a15c36cc8c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 15 (2019_20) — "Keeping Georgia's Schools Safe Act"

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 27 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to loitering at or disrupting schools, so as to require public and private schools to have performed certain threat assessments; to amend Article 9 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center, so as to provide for the center's role in preventing, discovering, responding to, and recovering from threats, warnings, and developing situations regarding any public or private school; to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to property tax exemptions; 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 1664 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 1846S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amendment AM 41 0466 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 41 2032S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 41 2042S/hrs (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 15/HCSFA (committee substitute) — source
8. SB15/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 47–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-15 Senate Hopper
• 2019-01-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-03-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-28 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-02 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-04-02 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-10 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-10 Veto V7 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fb657b09-21f3-4075-8a62-1a606fddb917. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).