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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Social services; improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the central child abuse registry, so as to provide improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; to provide definitions; to provide for notice of abuse allegations; to provide for reporting abuse cases to DFACS office; to provide for hearing on expungement of name from registry; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 478"
+citation: "Georgia HB 478 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mandi Ballinger"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-25"
+last_action: "2020-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5ccec0f-debe-42a3-9c55-70b12f091341"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "1dffd6477b6418434ed82c42da634f8e93a43ab77b68d7fc7bbf0e66cc201f38"
+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 478 (2019_20) — Social services; improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the central child abuse registry, so as to provide improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; to provide definitions; to provide for notice of abuse allegations; to provide for reporting abuse cases to DFACS office; to provide for hearing on expungement of name from registry; 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.
+
+1. **Floor Amendment AM 48 0006** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187270.pdf)
+2. **HB 478/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187655.pdf)
+3. **LC 48 0075/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182731.pdf)
+4. **Sen ctee sub LC 48 0112S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185232.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **151–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-25** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
+- **2019-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-07** Act 252 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5ccec0f-debe-42a3-9c55-70b12f091341`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+