republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-395.md

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Bill	Education; the possession of opioid antagonists in schools; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to authorize the possession of opioid antagonists in schools; to define a term; to authorize schools to maintain a stock supply of opioid antagonists; to authorize trained school personnel to administer opioid antagonists and carry opioid antagonists on their person; to provide for immunity; to provide for activation of the emergency medical services system and notification of emergency contacts; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 395	Georgia SB 395 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Clint Dixon Larry Walker, III Sam Watson Sonya Halpern	8	16	3	2024-01-24	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/16d554c2-b0a9-4deb-9acd-a49e657860af	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7ddede8b5ade4e9dd10d4979f2b32e5400dc4fe211dfbeba3f9da7161a65d0a6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 395 (2023_24) — Education; the possession of opioid antagonists in schools; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to authorize the possession of opioid antagonists in schools; to define a term; to authorize schools to maintain a stock supply of opioid antagonists; to authorize trained school personnel to administer opioid antagonists and carry opioid antagonists on their person; to provide for immunity; to provide for activation of the emergency medical services system and notification of emergency contacts; 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. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 33 9604 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 49 1776S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor Amend 1A (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 49 1900S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 49 1941S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
8. SB 395/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #882 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #589 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 54–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #808 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 171–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-24 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-12 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-03-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-23 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Act 462 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16d554c2-b0a9-4deb-9acd-a49e657860af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).