---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health; grant program to aid service members, veterans, and their families; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to governing and regulation of mental health, so as to provide for a grant program within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to provide behavioral health services to military service members, veterans, and their families; to provide for definitions; to provide for program qualification requirements; to provide for the adoption of rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "HB 414"
citation: "Georgia HB 414 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Al Williams", "Farooq Mughal", "Mary Oliver", "Matt Hatchett", "Shaw Blackmon"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5702154-cbf2-4519-b3df-a543ad26a68c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "00a28acfebb11f8dd1c300e547b5e18f0f12a5b33bdc37c7484db737b72c8fe6"
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 414 (2023_24) — Mental health; grant program to aid service members, veterans, and their families; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to governing and regulation of mental health, so as to provide for a grant program within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to provide behavioral health services to military service members, veterans, and their families; to provide for definitions; to provide for program qualification requirements; to provide for the adoption of rules and regulations; 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 414/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/220434.pdf)
2. **LC 54 0180/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/214595.pdf)
3. **LC 54 0216S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/216377.pdf)
4. **LC 54 0216S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/215761.pdf)
5. **SCSFA to HB 414** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/218688.pdf)
6. **Sen ctee sub LC 54 0241S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/217833.pdf)
7. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/218711.pdf)
8. **Sen floor amend 1A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/218434.pdf)
9. **Sen floor amend 1B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/218436.pdf)

## Votes

- House Vote #104 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **167–0** (pass) · lower
- House Vote #363 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **169–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #246 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **37–16** (pass) · upper
- Senate Vote #247 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Al Williams — primary (person)
- Farooq Mughal — primary (person)
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
- Shaw Blackmon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2023-02-15** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2023-02-16** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2023-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2023-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2023-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-25** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-25** Act 26 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-25** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5702154-cbf2-4519-b3df-a543ad26a68c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).