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Bill Education; safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; provide A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; to create an Office of Safe Schools within the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to provide technical assistance for local school systems to develop policies and procedures for their threat management teams; to develop a state-wide behavioral threat management operational process; to provide for definitions; to amend Code Section 16-11-37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to terroristic threats and acts and penalties, so as to provide for the offense of threatening the death of or serious injury to individuals who are or likely to be at school; to amend Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to inspection of public records, so as to provide for an exemption; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 HB 268 Georgia HB 268 (2025_26)
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COURTS
CRIMES AND OFFENSES (CRIMINAL CODE)
EDUCATION
MILITARY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
enacted
Chris Erwin
Chuck Efstration
Gerald Greene
Holt Persinger
Houston Gaines
Jon Burns
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Georgia HB 268 (2025_26) — Education; safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; to create an Office of Safe Schools within the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to provide technical assistance for local school systems to develop policies and procedures for their threat management teams; to develop a state-wide behavioral threat management operational process; to provide for definitions; to amend Code Section 16-11-37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to terroristic threats and acts and penalties, so as to provide for the offense of threatening the death of or serious injury to individuals who are or likely to be at school; to amend Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to inspection of public records, so as to provide for an exemption; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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. HB 268/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 49 2197/a (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 49 2326S/hs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 49 2328S/RCS (committee substitute) — source
  5. LC 49 2328S/rcs (committee substitute) — source
  6. Sen Ctee sub LC 49 2396S (committee substitute) — source
  7. Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 49 0267 (committee substitute) — source
  8. Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 49 0268 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #347 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 2529 (fail) · upper
  • House Vote #365 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 15412 (pass) · lower
  • House Vote #166 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 15913 (pass) · lower
  • Senate Vote #348 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 459 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Chris Erwin — primary (person)
  • Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
  • Gerald Greene — primary (person)
  • Holt Persinger — primary (person)
  • Houston Gaines — primary (person)
  • Jon Burns — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-04 House Hopper introduction
  • 2025-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2025-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2025-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2025-03-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2025-03-31 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2025-03-31 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2025-03-31 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2025-04-09 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-04-28 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-04-28 Act 17 executive-signature
  • 2025-04-28 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d52384d-49ac-4cfe-a0e3-9ee5fd35ac05. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).