republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-341.md

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Bill	Peace Officers; re-employment of retired peace officers and correctional officers during disasters and emergencies; provide	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 provide for re-employment of retired peace officers and correctional officers during disasters and emergencies; to provide definitions; to provide for training and qualifications; to provide for immunities and powers of arrest; to provide for compensation; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 341	Georgia SB 341 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Brandon Beach Butch Miller John Albers John Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Mike Dugan Randy Robertson Steve Gooch Tyler Harper	3	15	1	2020-01-30	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/42a914b5-0dab-475d-ad3e-81bdfd06f446	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c5db86a4289f87bf099527470802ed0a02fe3db1581db73445294140293823d8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 341 (2019_20) — Peace Officers; re-employment of retired peace officers and correctional officers during disasters and emergencies; provide

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 provide for re-employment of retired peace officers and correctional officers during disasters and emergencies; to provide definitions; to provide for training and qualifications; to provide for immunities and powers of arrest; to provide for compensation; 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 48 0171 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB341/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-30 Senate Hopper
• 2020-01-31 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-02-25 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-29 Act 513 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42a914b5-0dab-475d-ad3e-81bdfd06f446. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).