republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-859.md

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Bill	Firearms; license holders; carrying and possession of certain weapons in certain buildings or real property owned or leased to public institutions of postsecondary education; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, so as to authorize the carrying and possession of certain weapons by weapons carry license holders in or on certain buildings or real property owned by or leased to public institutions of postsecondary education; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 859	Georgia HB 859 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alan Powell Dustin Hightower John Meadows Mandi Ballinger Rick Jasperse Trey Kelley	4	15	1	2016-01-27	2016-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/e62ceaac-8c08-477e-9032-b7028b3fe743	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	47e768599b82e1b7215ea5131755147789a6ea351732b5d2a8bb883b93f71420	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 859 (2015_16) — Firearms; license holders; carrying and possession of certain weapons in certain buildings or real property owned or leased to public institutions of postsecondary education; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to carrying and possession of firearms, so as to authorize the carrying and possession of certain weapons by weapons carry license holders in or on certain buildings or real property owned by or leased to public institutions of postsecondary education; 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 859/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 41 0577/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 41 0729S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 41 0729S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 113–59 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alan Powell — primary (person)
• Dustin Hightower — primary (person)
• John Meadows — primary (person)
• Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
• Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
• Trey Kelley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-27 House Hopper
• 2016-01-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-17 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-11 Senate Engrossed passage
• 2016-03-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-11 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Veto V9 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e62ceaac-8c08-477e-9032-b7028b3fe743. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).