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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; revise sunset prov.; repeal in its entirety June 30, 2018"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to mental health and authorizing a licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts, Act No. 546, approved April 21, 2014 (Ga L. 2014, p. 347), so as to revise a sunset provision; to provide for an effective date; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "SB 53"
+citation: "Georgia SB 53 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Fran Millar", "Greg Kirk", "Jesse Stone", "Nan Orrock", "Renee Unterman", "Tyler Harper", "William Ligon, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-01-26"
+last_action: "2015-03-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9faee79d-7bdf-4e64-aa96-697b3e2b9000"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "6d3f0dac54797770b7e12ea09471afac2362f1d9935e389b14ef797dc5f98022"
+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 53 (2015_16) — Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; revise sunset prov.; repeal in its entirety June 30, 2018
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to mental health and authorizing a licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts, Act No. 546, approved April 21, 2014 (Ga L. 2014, p. 347), so as to revise a sunset provision; to provide for an effective date; 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 1867** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145728.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147109.pdf)
+3. **SB 53/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149555.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- MOTION TO REMOVE FROM THE TABLE — **31–21** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Fran Millar — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
+- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
+- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-01-26** Senate Hopper
+- **2015-01-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-02-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-02-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-02-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-02-04** Senate Tabled
+- **2015-02-09** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2015-02-09** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-02-25** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2015-03-06** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-03-10** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-03-10** Act 8 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-03-10** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9faee79d-7bdf-4e64-aa96-697b3e2b9000`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+