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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to drug abuse treatment and education programs, so as to provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs; to create the State Commission on Narcotic Treatment Programs; to provide legislative findings and intent; to provide for the membership, powers, duties, compensation, and allowances of the commission; to provide for the abolishment of the commission; to suspend the acceptance of applications and issuing of licenses for narcotic treatment programs for a certain period; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "SB 402"
+citation: "Georgia SB 402 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Jeff Mullis", "Tyler Harper"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2016-02-18"
+last_action: "2016-04-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63681c18-53aa-4a4d-bb59-f1e2103f1bb3"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "3394bcf7adff0a9243ec4881ca9223318d0d258f14b17779190c3decd591266e"
+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 402 (2015_16) — Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to drug abuse treatment and education programs, so as to provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs; to create the State Commission on Narcotic Treatment Programs; to provide legislative findings and intent; to provide for the membership, powers, duties, compensation, and allowances of the commission; to provide for the abolishment of the commission; to suspend the acceptance of applications and issuing of licenses for narcotic treatment programs for a certain period; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 37 2143** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157908.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159148.pdf)
+3. **Committee sub LC 37 2165S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158693.pdf)
+4. **LC 37 2193S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160062.pdf)
+5. **SB 402/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162444.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **54–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-18** Senate Hopper
+- **2016-02-19** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-02-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-02-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-29** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-03-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2016-03-07** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-03-24** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2016-04-04** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-04-26** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-26** Act 343 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63681c18-53aa-4a4d-bb59-f1e2103f1bb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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