SB 15 Georgia Senate · 2019-2020 Regular Session

"Keeping Georgia's Schools Safe Act"

Summary
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 27 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to loitering at or disrupting schools, so as to require public and private schools to have performed certain threat assessments; to amend Article 9 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center, so as to provide for the center's role in preventing, discovering, responding to, and recovering from threats, warnings, and developing situations regarding any public or private school; to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to property tax exemptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Mar 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
House Passage
Apr 2019
Signed into Law
May 2019
Introduced Jan 15, 2019 Signed May 10, 2019
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
15
Key actions
6
Committee
3
Amendments
1
May 10, 2019
Signed into law
Veto V7
upper
May 10, 2019
Signed into law
Senate Date Signed by Governor
upper
Apr 2, 2019
Introduced
Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
upper
Apr 2, 2019
Lower · Passed
House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
lower
Mar 28, 2019
Lower · Passed
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
lower
Feb 27, 2019
Upper · Passed
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute
upper
Feb 21, 2019
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
upper
Jan 16, 2019
Committee
Senate Read and Referred
upper
20 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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