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type: "Bill"
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title: "Mental Health; provide reasonable standards for providing patients notice; admission to an emergency receiving facility"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2015_16"
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identifier: "SB 271"
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citation: "Georgia SB 271 (2015_16)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Greg Kirk"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2016-01-15"
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last_action: "2016-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/669e3e08-47bd-4c32-b0cb-d7915d13969e"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "264d935f3ca4f45204dcd441770e68b838159a61c008adfd7f395fcccac4c8f8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia SB 271 (2015_16) — Mental Health; provide reasonable standards for providing patients notice; admission to an emergency receiving facility
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **As introduced LC 37 2060** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154696.pdf)
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2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156870.pdf)
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3. **Committee sub LC 37 2101S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/158267.pdf)
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4. **Floor amend 1 AM 41 0144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157320.pdf)
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5. **SB 271/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162078.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **46–5** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ben Watson — primary (person)
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- Dean Burke — primary (person)
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- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-01-15** Senate Hopper
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- **2016-01-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2016-02-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2016-02-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2016-02-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2016-02-22** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2016-02-23** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2016-02-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2016-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2016-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2016-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2016-03-30** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2016-04-26** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2016-04-26** Act 405 `executive-signature`
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- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/669e3e08-47bd-4c32-b0cb-d7915d13969e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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