---
type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Commission on the Holocaust; membership; change"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 12 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, so as to change the membership of the commission; to provide for the design and placement of a memorial to the Holocaust; to provide for funding; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 356"
citation: "Georgia SB 356 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandon Beach", "Butch Miller", "Jennifer Jordan", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Lester Jackson", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de48f7a7-b4f0-41ac-94cd-76f851c33c3b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "3ead1c431db2b0c7839e67fe4eab10eee39a4e89fdd48268116cd725462853cd"
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 356 (2017_18) — Georgia Commission on the Holocaust; membership; change

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 12 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, so as to change the membership of the commission; to provide for the design and placement of a memorial to the Holocaust; to provide for funding; 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **54–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Jennifer Jordan — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-24** Senate Hopper
- **2018-01-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-12** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-12** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-12** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-07** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Act 442 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-07** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de48f7a7-b4f0-41ac-94cd-76f851c33c3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).