republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-65.md

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Bill	Mental Health; authorize licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; secure certification	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to mental health, so as to authorize a licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts which physicians, psychologists, and others are authorized to perform regarding emergency examinations of persons who are mentally ill or alcoholic or drug dependent; to define certain terms; to require a licensed professional counselor to secure certification to perform certain acts from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 65	Georgia SB 65 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Renee Unterman	5	20	1	2013-01-18	2014-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/4ad97706-f7df-4fb6-8e5d-aaf1a1097644	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1656aa0c2d9aaf1ff59fab1100e9c583ede845d1746731db628115d9f7d7759b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 65 (2013_14) — Mental Health; authorize licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; secure certification

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to mental health, so as to authorize a licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts which physicians, psychologists, and others are authorized to perform regarding emergency examinations of persons who are mentally ill or alcoholic or drug dependent; to define certain terms; to require a licensed professional counselor to secure certification to perform certain acts from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities; 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 37 1494 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 1519S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5183S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 65/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-18 Senate Hopper
• 2013-01-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-02-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-02-11 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-22 House Postponed
• 2013-03-25 House Postponed
• 2013-03-26 House Postponed
• 2013-03-28 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2014-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-07 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-03-20 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2014-03-26 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-21 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-21 Act 546 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4ad97706-f7df-4fb6-8e5d-aaf1a1097644. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).