Six months after the tragic school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, the Georgia House of Representatives passed two bills aimed at improving safety for students.

Georgia House members have voted overwhelmingly for a school safety bill aimed at preventing a school shooting like the one in September that killed two teachers and two students at a high school northeast of Atlanta.

The Georgia House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a school safety bill aimed at preventing school shootings through better information sharing and alertness to possible threats by students. The legislation was proposed less than a year after the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School,

ATLANTA — Six months after the shootings at Apalachee High School left four dead, the Georgia House passed two bills aimed at gun safety and reducing threats and violence at Georgia schools. The school safety package was a major legislative goal for Republican House Speaker Jon Burns.

In a heartfelt session, the Georgia House passed a comprehensive school safety bill inspired by the tragic shooting at Apalachee High School.

The Georgia State House passed two bills Tuesday in the wake of last fall’s mass shooting at Apalachee High School. One would enact a tax credit for safe guns storage devices. Another would create training and databases for schools to manage threats.

The Georgia Senate has passed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the House has passed a school safety bill with a speech from Speaker Jon Burns, and several other education-related bills have emerged from both chambers,

Georgia lawmakers passed a handful of school and firearm safety bills, rounding out a package of legislation House Speaker Jon Burns had slated as a priority.