republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-393.md

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Bill	Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies; duties and powers; revise; campus policemen and other security personnel of the university system; arrests for felony offenses	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 and Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the university system and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, respectively, so as to revise the duties and powers of certain law enforcement officers and agencies; to expand the power of campus policemen and other security personnel of the university system to make arrests for felony offenses; to codify the Legal Division of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation; to expand the jurisdiction of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in regards to street gang terrorism and prevention; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 393	Georgia SB 393 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Brian Strickland John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick P. K. Martin IV	5	16	1	2020-02-19	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c16b6846-a3d5-473b-a224-d40036c17b0a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	98541becbb5b1a5e3242a9896061d7100772ffd418628ad5cf2a94b728f08c32	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 393 (2019_20) — Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies; duties and powers; revise; campus policemen and other security personnel of the university system; arrests for felony offenses

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 and Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the university system and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, respectively, so as to revise the duties and powers of certain law enforcement officers and agencies; to expand the power of campus policemen and other security personnel of the university system to make arrests for felony offenses; to codify the Legal Division of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation; to expand the jurisdiction of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in regards to street gang terrorism and prevention; 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 2245-EC (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 41 2406-ECS (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 39 2698S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 393/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 35–19 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-19 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-06-26 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 390 executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c16b6846-a3d5-473b-a224-d40036c17b0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).