republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-128.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Professional Counselors; revise definitions relating to marriage and family therapy	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 10A of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists, so as to revise definitions relating to marriage and family therapy; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 128	Georgia SB 128 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Fran Millar Renee Unterman	3	17	1	2013-02-08	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5cbc5a07-37e3-4910-8052-001b7356d05f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e574ad9674d8890bca7eb2825aca8d7fb2c30c2c7cd1947bd1d9859a28fda423	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 128 (2013_14) — Professional Counselors; revise definitions relating to marriage and family therapy

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 10A of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists, so as to revise definitions relating to marriage and family therapy; 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 33 4978 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB128/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 44–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-08 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-28 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-28 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2014-02-05 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-21 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-21 Act 549 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5cbc5a07-37e3-4910-8052-001b7356d05f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).