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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council; create"
+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 create the Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council; to provide for legislative declaration; to provide for definitions; to provide for membership; to provide for duties and reporting requirements; 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: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 444"
+citation: "Georgia SB 444 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Greg Kirk", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Renee Unterman"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-02-15"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44d06af1-9121-4dcc-b992-52130d827ba4"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "2c17344040350f89f47830a2c39852369cbb3accc8b543307d6263d0ef82613f"
+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 444 (2017_18) — Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council; create
+
+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 create the Georgia Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan Advisory Council; to provide for legislative declaration; to provide for definitions; to provide for membership; to provide for duties and reporting requirements; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE AS AMENDED — **55–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-15** Senate Hopper
+- **2018-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-28** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
+- **2018-03-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-19** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-08** Act 469 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44d06af1-9121-4dcc-b992-52130d827ba4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+