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type: "Bill"
title: "Law enforcement officers and agencies; records of investigation of an officer by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be retained for 30 years; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-8-7.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to authority of council to refuse certificate to applicant or to discipline council certified officer or exempt officer, grounds, restoration of certificate, emergency suspension of certification, and notice of investigation, so as to provide that records of investigation of an officer by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be retained for 30 years; to provide for destruction of such records; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 325"
citation: "Georgia HB 325 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Alan Powell", "Andrew Welch", "Dave Belton", "Heath Clark", "Mandi Ballinger"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1130df92-bf71-474a-93cf-b711234d374e"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "c9552ab6e93a1ff5503d1b33218cd70b14b0b9d7320af7ae46bda17dca8de303"
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 325 (2019_20) — Law enforcement officers and agencies; records of investigation of an officer by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be retained for 30 years; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 35-8-7.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to authority of council to refuse certificate to applicant or to discipline council certified officer or exempt officer, grounds, restoration of certificate, emergency suspension of certification, and notice of investigation, so as to provide that records of investigation of an officer by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be retained for 30 years; to provide for destruction of such records; 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 325/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185613.pdf)
2. **LC 41 1808/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181589.pdf)
3. **LC 41 1932S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184051.pdf)
4. **LC 41 1932S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183701.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **147–24** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Al Williams — primary (person)
- Alan Powell — primary (person)
- Andrew Welch — primary (person)
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- Heath Clark — primary (person)
- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-15** House Hopper
- **2019-02-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-28** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-28** Act 72 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1130df92-bf71-474a-93cf-b711234d374e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).