--- title: SB 391. Offenses Involving Illegal Aliens; immigration enforcement in certain locations absent a judicial warrant; prohibit collection: bills id: 2025-2026/sb391 cite_as: SB 391, 2025-2026 Regular Session (Ga.) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb391 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb391.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb391/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/72174 date: 2026-01-14 status: introduced corpus_version: bills-2026-09-13 license: Public record of the Georgia General Assembly, via LegiScan; see about.md publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. 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Offenses Involving Illegal Aliens; immigration enforcement in certain locations absent a judicial warrant; prohibit ## Text Senate Bill 391 By: Senators Parkes of the 7th, Jones II of the 22nd, Mangham of the 55th, Kemp of the 38th, Jackson of the 41st and others A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Article 5 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to offenses involving illegal aliens, so as to prohibit activities related to immigration enforcement in certain locations absent a judicial warrant; to provide for such prohibition to apply to federal, state, and local government employees; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1. Article 5 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to offenses involving illegal aliens, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows: "16-11-204. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no federal, state, or local government employee, including law enforcement officers, shall conduct immigration enforcement activities or take actions with the intent to assist in immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant issued on or in any school grounds, college campuses, public places of worship, hospitals, public libraries, and family violence shelters." SECTION 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed. ## Summaries written by Georgia Commons The following was written by claude-sonnet-5 from the text above and is not part of the bill. Quote the text, not the summary. A Georgia Senate bill would bar federal, state, and local government employees, including police, from conducting immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant at schools, colleges, houses of worship, hospitals, libraries, and family violence shelters. ### Plain-language summary Georgia law currently does not set specific location-based limits on immigration enforcement activity by government employees. This bill would add a new section to the state's criminal code dealing with offenses involving illegal aliens (O.C.G.A. Title 16, Chapter 11, Article 5). The new section says that no federal, state, or local government employee, including law enforcement officers, may conduct immigration enforcement activities or act with the intent to help immigration enforcement at certain sensitive locations unless they have a judicial warrant. The protected locations are school grounds, college campuses, public places of worship, hospitals, public libraries, and family violence shelters. The bill repeals any conflicting laws but does not state a separate effective date, so it would take effect under Georgia's standard rules once signed. ### What it does - Adds a new Georgia code section (O.C.G.A. ยง 16-11-204) restricting immigration enforcement at specific locations without a judicial warrant. - Applies the restriction to federal, state, and local government employees, explicitly including law enforcement officers. - Covers actions taken directly for immigration enforcement as well as actions intended to assist immigration enforcement. - Lists the protected locations as school grounds, college campuses, public places of worship, hospitals, public libraries, and family violence shelters. - Repeals any existing Georgia laws that conflict with this new rule. ### Who it affects Federal, state, and local government employees who might conduct or assist immigration enforcement, including police officers, as well as people present at schools, colleges, houses of worship, hospitals, libraries, and family violence shelters who would be shielded from warrantless enforcement actions at those sites. ### Why it matters If enacted, immigration enforcement actions at these specific sites would require a judicial warrant, meaning government employees could not act there based on other kinds of orders or requests alone. This could affect how and where enforcement occurs and how people who visit these locations experience day-to-day interactions with government employees. ### Key provisions - Section 1 creates new Code section 16-11-204, prohibiting immigration enforcement activity without a judicial warrant at listed locations. - The prohibition applies broadly to 'federal, state, or local government employee,' not just law enforcement, and covers acts done 'with the intent to assist' enforcement. - The protected locations are specifically named: school grounds, college campuses, public places of worship, hospitals, public libraries, and family violence shelters. - Section 2 repeals all state laws and parts of laws that conflict with this Act. ## Status - Status: Introduced (2026-01-13) - Last action: Senate Read and Referred (2026-01-14) - Sponsors: Nabilah Islam Parkes, Harold Jones, Randal Mangham, RaShaun Kemp, Kim Jackson, Tonya Anderson, Nikki Merritt, Derek Mallow - Official page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/72174 > The history, votes, and amendments (95 characters) are at https://georgiacommons.org/bills/2025-2026/sb391.md?full=1