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type: "Bill"
title: "Military; sharing of information and reporting of cyber attacks; facilitate"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 38 and 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to military, emergency management, and veterans affairs and state government, respectively, so as to facilitate the sharing of information and reporting of cyber attacks; to require governmental agencies and utilities to report any cyber attacks to the director of emergency management and homeland security; to provide for definitions; to provide for the director to promulgate certain rules and regulations; to provide for proceedings related to cybersecurity to be held in executive session; to provide for certain information, data, and reports related to cybersecurity and cyber attacks to be exempt from public disclosure and inspection; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 156"
citation: "Georgia HB 156 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Martin", "Don Parsons", "Mesha Mainor", "Randy Nix", "Trey Kelley", "Vance Smith"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51a45209-7963-4c8f-9c84-e81fb0821f73"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2f6bf01d163e3bcf7d443d9d0f7a87be7c66f192c514601bbec4fe77fb8f55d5"
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 156 (2021_22) — Military; sharing of information and reporting of cyber attacks; facilitate
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 38 and 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to military, emergency management, and veterans affairs and state government, respectively, so as to facilitate the sharing of information and reporting of cyber attacks; to require governmental agencies and utilities to report any cyber attacks to the director of emergency management and homeland security; to provide for definitions; to provide for the director to promulgate certain rules and regulations; to provide for proceedings related to cybersecurity to be held in executive session; to provide for certain information, data, and reports related to cybersecurity and cyber attacks to be exempt from public disclosure and inspection; 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. **Committee sub LC 36 4739S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199404.pdf)
2. **HB 156/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200290.pdf)
3. **LC 36 4497/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196159.pdf)
4. **LC 36 4615S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197278.pdf)
5. **LC 36 4675S/rcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198326.pdf)
6. **Sen ctee sub LC 36 4739S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/199906.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **163–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Charles Martin — primary (person)
- Don Parsons — primary (person)
- Mesha Mainor — primary (person)
- Randy Nix — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
- Vance Smith — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-28** House Hopper
- **2021-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-05** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-08** Senate Tabled
- **2021-03-08** Senate Taken from Table
- **2021-03-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-08** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-11** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2021-03-25** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-25** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-25** Act 8 `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-25** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51a45209-7963-4c8f-9c84-e81fb0821f73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).