Legislation: batch A — AK AL AR AZ CO CT DE GA HI IA ID

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/hb-250.md

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Foster homes; employee with satisfactory fingerprint records check in past 24 months exempt from additional background check; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 49-5-69.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to fingerprint and preliminary records check for foster homes, so as to provide that an employee of an early care and education program who has received a satisfactory fingerprint records check determination within the previous 24 months is exempt from submitting applications for an additional background check for purposes of providing care to children placed in a foster home; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 250"
+citation: "Georgia HB 250 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Mandi Ballinger", "Matt Dollar", "Stacey Abrams", "Terry Rogers", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-02"
+last_action: "2017-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4257c98-17ed-4fe7-8f8c-fedeae0864cd"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "f307ba4a4c290d7e04eb4dece53893af6aff347faac1aa451fb90410df5e3945"
+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 250 (2017_18) — Foster homes; employee with satisfactory fingerprint records check in past 24 months exempt from additional background check; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 49-5-69.1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to fingerprint and preliminary records check for foster homes, so as to provide that an employee of an early care and education program who has received a satisfactory fingerprint records check determination within the previous 24 months is exempt from submitting applications for an additional background check for purposes of providing care to children placed in a foster home; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **159–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
+- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
+- Matt Dollar — primary (person)
+- Stacey Abrams — primary (person)
+- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-02** House Hopper
+- **2017-02-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-21** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-02-22** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-30** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-08** Act 191 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-08** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4257c98-17ed-4fe7-8f8c-fedeae0864cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+