republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-271.md

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Bill	Mental Health; provide reasonable standards for providing patients notice; admission to an emergency receiving facility	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to examination and treatment for mental illness, so as to provide for reasonable standards for providing patients and their representatives notice of their rights upon each such patient's admission to an emergency receiving facility; to provide for procedure for continued involuntary hospitalization of a mentally ill patient when a discharge has been planned and is deemed unsafe; to change the time frame for certain notices related to the procedure for continued involuntary hospitalization; to provide for a reasonable standard for diligent efforts to secure the names of a mental patient's representatives; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 271	Georgia SB 271 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Dean Burke Greg Kirk	5	15	1	2016-01-15	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/669e3e08-47bd-4c32-b0cb-d7915d13969e	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	264d935f3ca4f45204dcd441770e68b838159a61c008adfd7f395fcccac4c8f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 271 (2015_16) — Mental Health; provide reasonable standards for providing patients notice; admission to an emergency receiving facility

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to examination and treatment for mental illness, so as to provide for reasonable standards for providing patients and their representatives notice of their rights upon each such patient's admission to an emergency receiving facility; to provide for procedure for continued involuntary hospitalization of a mentally ill patient when a discharge has been planned and is deemed unsafe; to change the time frame for certain notices related to the procedure for continued involuntary hospitalization; to provide for a reasonable standard for diligent efforts to secure the names of a mental patient's representatives; 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 2060 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 2101S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 41 0144 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 271/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 46–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-15 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 405 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/669e3e08-47bd-4c32-b0cb-d7915d13969e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).