republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-568.md

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Bill	Paternity; testing in certain cases; revise provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 7 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to determination of paternity, so as to revise provisions relative to paternity testing in certain cases; to provide for reimbursement of paternity testing costs incurred by the Department of Human Services; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 568	Georgia HB 568 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Alex Atwood David Wilkerson Katie Dempsey Mary Oliver Tom Weldon Wendell Willard	6	18	1	2015-03-05	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/f63e261f-a46f-475b-b18d-7096497ea4b6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	76a399e49ac235bdbb7358455ade751e6ae5f3611a93447bca83fa0bce8158ac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 568 (2015_16) — Paternity; testing in certain cases; revise provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 3 of Chapter 7 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to determination of paternity, so as to revise provisions relative to paternity testing in certain cases; to provide for reimbursement of paternity testing costs incurred by the Department of Human Services; 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. Floor Amendment AM 29 2390 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 568/AP* (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 568/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 6562S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 40 0879/a (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 40 0919S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 169–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Atwood — primary (person)
• David Wilkerson — primary (person)
• Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Tom Weldon — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-05 House Hopper
• 2015-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Tabled
• 2015-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2015-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 252 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f63e261f-a46f-475b-b18d-7096497ea4b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).