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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Social services; aging; transfer oversight of such services to the Department of Community Health"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to services for the aging, so as to transfer the oversight of such services to the Department of Community Health; to provide for the department to establish a community care unit within the Division of Medical Assistance; to delete certain provisions related to the implementation of a community care system; to provide for an annual community care plan to be incorporated into the State Plan for Medical Assistance; to change references to agency to department; 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: "HB 1085"
+citation: "Georgia HB 1085 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Butch Parrish", "Katie Dempsey", "Matt Hatchett", "Penny Houston", "Sharon Cooper", "Terry England"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-02-23"
+last_action: "2016-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71f66ff5-52ef-48e8-a047-d03847ebb252"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "f5065a6ca03d770c1b00f0afe804fa88a7f1c6306c1b41b64b272ca46aef516d"
+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 HB 1085 (2015_16) — Social services; aging; transfer oversight of such services to the Department of Community Health
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to services for the aging, so as to transfer the oversight of such services to the Department of Community Health; to provide for the department to establish a community care unit within the Division of Medical Assistance; to delete certain provisions related to the implementation of a community care system; to provide for an annual community care plan to be incorporated into the State Plan for Medical Assistance; to change references to agency to department; 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. **HB 1085/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162466.pdf)
+2. **LC 37 2152/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158531.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **158–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Butch Parrish — primary (person)
+- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
+- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
+- Penny Houston — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+- Terry England — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-23** House Hopper
+- **2016-02-23** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-02-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-02-29** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-08** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-05-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-03** Act 547 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71f66ff5-52ef-48e8-a047-d03847ebb252`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+