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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor; sunset provision; repeal"
+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), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 10, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 4), so as to repeal a sunset provision; to provide for an effective date; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 52"
+citation: "Georgia SB 52 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "P. K. Martin IV", "Renee Unterman"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-01-24"
+last_action: "2017-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42731368-57dd-425f-bba5-39d55dca9689"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "47423d660264d3874594f2ffe75bee0709f1ea2682094a21db6da082dcb69e24"
+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 52 (2017_18) — Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor; sunset provision; repeal
+
+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), as amended, particularly by an Act approved March 10, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 4), so as to repeal 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **51–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Ellis Black — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-24** Senate Hopper
+- **2017-01-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-09** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-09** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-15** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-04-03** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Act 231 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-09** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42731368-57dd-425f-bba5-39d55dca9689`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+