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type: "Bill"
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title: "Education; safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; provide"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; to create an Office of Safe Schools within the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to provide technical assistance for local school systems to develop policies and procedures for their threat management teams; to develop a state-wide behavioral threat management operational process; to provide for definitions; to amend Code Section 16-11-37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to terroristic threats and acts and penalties, so as to provide for the offense of threatening the death of or serious injury to individuals who are or likely to be at school; to amend Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to inspection of public records, so as to provide for an exemption; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2025_26"
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identifier: "HB 268"
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citation: "Georgia HB 268 (2025_26)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES (CRIMINAL CODE)", "EDUCATION", "MILITARY", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "AND VETERANS AFFAIRS"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Chris Erwin", "Chuck Efstration", "Gerald Greene", "Holt Persinger", "Houston Gaines", "Jon Burns"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2025-02-04"
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last_action: "2025-04-28"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d52384d-49ac-4cfe-a0e3-9ee5fd35ac05"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "3e13eaf9741b461c8fd259c5ee16adde90ca515fe2601e72bd88e13e3604ca8d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 268 (2025_26) — Education; safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; provide
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the safety, health, and well-being of students and school communities; to create an Office of Safe Schools within the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency; to provide technical assistance for local school systems to develop policies and procedures for their threat management teams; to develop a state-wide behavioral threat management operational process; to provide for definitions; to amend Code Section 16-11-37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to terroristic threats and acts and penalties, so as to provide for the offense of threatening the death of or serious injury to individuals who are or likely to be at school; to amend Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 of the O.C.G.A., relating to inspection of public records, so as to provide for an exemption; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 268/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238529.pdf)
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2. **LC 49 2197/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/231344.pdf)
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3. **LC 49 2326S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/234968.pdf)
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4. **LC 49 2328S/RCS** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235222.pdf)
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5. **LC 49 2328S/rcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/235175.pdf)
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6. **Sen Ctee sub LC 49 2396S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/237919.pdf)
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7. **Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 49 0267** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238247.pdf)
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8. **Sen Floor Amend 2 AM 49 0268** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238312.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Senate Vote #347 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **25–29** (fail) · upper
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- House Vote #365 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **154–12** (pass) · lower
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- House Vote #166 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **159–13** (pass) · lower
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- Senate Vote #348 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **45–9** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Chris Erwin — primary (person)
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- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
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- Gerald Greene — primary (person)
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- Holt Persinger — primary (person)
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- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
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- Jon Burns — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-04** House Hopper `introduction`
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- **2025-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-03** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-04** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-04** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2025-03-06** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-28** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2025-03-31** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
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- **2025-04-09** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-04-28** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-04-28** Act 17 `executive-signature`
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- **2025-04-28** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d52384d-49ac-4cfe-a0e3-9ee5fd35ac05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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