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Bill	Return to Play Act of 2013; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to enact the "Return to Play Act of 2013"; to require public and private schools which provide youth athletic activities to provide information to parents on the nature and risk of concussion and head injury and to establish concussion management and return to play policies; to require public recreation leagues to provide information to parents on the nature and risk of concussion and head injury; to provide for definitions; to provide for the endorsement of concussion recognition education courses; to provide for limited liability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 284	Georgia HB 284 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Billy Mitchell Brooks Coleman Jimmy Pruett Margaret Kaiser Sharon Cooper Valerie Clark	4	15	1	2013-02-08	2014-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0b6485df-374f-4547-a9f8-c668fb133b7c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7209d1731bc9c57e941356c3cc51a840c0ced66ac585dfe8296bd0b1a4bba2ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 284 (2013_14) — Return to Play Act of 2013; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 15 of Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to miscellaneous provisions under the "Quality Basic Education Act," so as to enact the "Return to Play Act of 2013"; to require public and private schools which provide youth athletic activities to provide information to parents on the nature and risk of concussion and head injury and to establish concussion management and return to play policies; to require public recreation leagues to provide information to parents on the nature and risk of concussion and head injury; to provide for definitions; to provide for the endorsement of concussion recognition education courses; to provide for limited liability; 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. HB 284/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 4987/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5098S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5098S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 161–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Mitchell — primary (person)
• Brooks Coleman — primary (person)
• Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
• Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-08 House Hopper
• 2013-02-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-01 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-04-23 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-04-23 Act 25 executive-signature
• 2014-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b6485df-374f-4547-a9f8-c668fb133b7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).