---
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).