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type: "Bill"
title: "State Defense Force; remove restrictions; rights of public officers and employees to be absent for service; reemployment rights"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Defense Force, so as to remove restrictions regarding the rights of public officers and employees to be absent for service on the State Defense Force and regarding reemployment rights of persons after service on the State Defense Force; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 69"
citation: "Georgia SB 69 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandon Beach", "Bruce Thompson", "Hunter Hill", "Judson Hill", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-01-29"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/265e5e5f-e83d-4ae9-b8ce-2ba9a9dcd9c2"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0e60ec2ce07a04f55b1be441bb99f569063d3b1f4992282174deea0cadc226c7"
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 SB 69 (2015_16) — State Defense Force; remove restrictions; rights of public officers and employees to be absent for service; reemployment rights
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Defense Force, so as to remove restrictions regarding the rights of public officers and employees to be absent for service on the State Defense Force and regarding reemployment rights of persons after service on the State Defense Force; 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 introduced LC 28 7429** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146341.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150591.pdf)
3. **SB 69/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152985.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **510** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
- Hunter Hill — primary (person)
- Judson Hill — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-01-29** Senate Hopper
- **2015-02-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-09** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-09** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-03-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-20** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-08** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-05** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Act 52 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/265e5e5f-e83d-4ae9-b8ce-2ba9a9dcd9c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).