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type: "Bill"
title: "Board of Public Safety; add commissioner of community supervision"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-2-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to creation of Board of Public Safety, composition, and appointment and terms of office of members, so as to add the commissioner of community supervision to the composition of the Board of Public Safety; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 856"
citation: "Georgia HB 856 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Powell", "Howard Maxwell", "John Deffenbaugh", "Johnnie Caldwell, Jr.", "Wes Cantrell"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f24e1a95-d05f-4545-bcc5-3693e8665f06"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "72a54599adcfc8320729c04ac806a94c8b01ea2b097b61a9a8de1762a9fcf3a8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 856 (2017_18) — Board of Public Safety; add commissioner of community supervision
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-2-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to creation of Board of Public Safety, composition, and appointment and terms of office of members, so as to add the commissioner of community supervision to the composition of the Board of Public Safety; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1501** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- John Deffenbaugh — primary (person)
- Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. — primary (person)
- Wes Cantrell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-07** House Hopper
- **2018-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-13** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-03-19** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 383 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f24e1a95-d05f-4545-bcc5-3693e8665f06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).