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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Supporting and Strengthening Families Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to provide for the creation, authorization, procedure, revocation, recision, and termination of a power of attorney from a parent to an agent for the temporary delegation of certain power and authority for the care and custody of his or her child; to repeal the \"Power of Attorney for the Care of a Minor Child Act\"; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedure; to grandfather certain provisions relating to a power of attorney given to a grandparent; to provide a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 359"
+citation: "Georgia HB 359 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barry Fleming", "Beth Beskin", "Geoff Duncan", "Meagan Hanson", "Regina Quick", "Trey Kelley"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-14"
+last_action: "2017-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d0a3475-ff0a-42b4-bced-95c73a5f3e13"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "43294c5362ceb975f6e65ec920bb2121e81cf0de4a88815b3a2a3283538e442b"
+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 359 (2017_18) — Supporting and Strengthening Families Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to provide for the creation, authorization, procedure, revocation, recision, and termination of a power of attorney from a parent to an agent for the temporary delegation of certain power and authority for the care and custody of his or her child; to repeal the "Power of Attorney for the Care of a Minor Child Act"; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedure; to grandfather certain provisions relating to a power of attorney given to a grandparent; to provide a short title; to provide for legislative findings; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **124–39** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
+- Beth Beskin — primary (person)
+- Geoff Duncan — primary (person)
+- Meagan Hanson — primary (person)
+- Regina Quick — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-14** House Hopper
+- **2017-02-15** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-16** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-13** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-15** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-15** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-09** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Veto V4 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d0a3475-ff0a-42b4-bced-95c73a5f3e13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+