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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Childhood Cancer Awareness Day; September 1 of each year; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to holidays and observances, so as to provide that September 1 of each year shall be Childhood Cancer Awareness Day in Georgia; 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: "2019_20"
+identifier: "SB 340"
+citation: "Georgia SB 340 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brandon Beach", "Bruce Thompson", "Ellis Black", "Greg Dolezal", "Jesse Stone", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Lee Anderson", "Matt Brass", "P. K. Martin IV", "Randy Robertson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-01-30"
+last_action: "2021-01-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f80d7a40-2ac9-4c41-a776-44fe00f4c531"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "ff6c86f09156eb1af6eaf2c2dff0fda87976a0f447e6a456c548f5897c2a3731"
+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 340 (2019_20) — Childhood Cancer Awareness Day; September 1 of each year; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 4 of Title 1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to holidays and observances, so as to provide that September 1 of each year shall be Childhood Cancer Awareness Day in Georgia; 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.
+
+1. **As introduced LC 28 9553** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/188940.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190959.pdf)
+3. **SB340/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/195125.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **53–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
+- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
+- Ellis Black — primary (person)
+- Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
+- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
+- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
+- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
+- Matt Brass — primary (person)
+- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
+- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-30** Senate Hopper
+- **2020-01-31** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-05** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-06-19** House Postponed
+- **2020-06-20** House Postponed
+- **2020-06-22** House Postponed
+- **2020-06-23** House Postponed
+- **2020-06-24** House Postponed
+- **2020-06-25** House Postponed
+- **2020-06-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2020-06-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2020-06-29** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-08-05** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-08-05** Act 581 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f80d7a40-2ac9-4c41-a776-44fe00f4c531`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+