---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protecting Military Children Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to parent and child relationship general provisions, so as to require child welfare agencies to make efforts to determine whether a parent or guardian of a child who is the subject of abuse allegations is on active duty in the military; to require certain notifications to military installation family advocacy programs; to provide for the reporting of child abuse to military law enforcement in certain situations; to provide for immunity for the reporting of child abuse to military law enforcement; to provide for a short title; 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 64"
citation: "Georgia HB 64 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Prince", "Chuck Efstration", "Dave Belton", "Mary Oliver", "Scott Holcomb"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1505c045-0efc-4f19-bf7d-217bd06a3b66"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "ba8394938280e9a1ebd3ffac44e545a0a52460a297c780a3ef0ea9cb66a47cae"
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 64 (2019_20) — Protecting Military Children Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to parent and child relationship general provisions, so as to require child welfare agencies to make efforts to determine whether a parent or guardian of a child who is the subject of abuse allegations is on active duty in the military; to require certain notifications to military installation family advocacy programs; to provide for the reporting of child abuse to military law enforcement in certain situations; to provide for immunity for the reporting of child abuse to military law enforcement; to provide for a short title; 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. **HB 64/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186282.pdf)
2. **LC 41 1694/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179857.pdf)
3. **LC 48 0060S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183267.pdf)
4. **LC 48 0060S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181560.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **169–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Prince — primary (person)
- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
- Scott Holcomb — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-28** House Hopper
- **2019-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-02-15** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Act 268 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1505c045-0efc-4f19-bf7d-217bd06a3b66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).