---
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).