republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-308.md

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Bill	Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program; establish; definitions; administration and duties	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to establish the Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program; to provide for a purpose; to provide for definitions; to provide for administration and duties; to provide for grant services; to provide criteria; to provide for record maintenance and reporting; to provide for reports to the General Assembly; to provide for funding; to provide for redesignation of certain Code provisions and conforming changes; to expand authorized expenditure of contributed funds; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 308	Georgia SB 308 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Bruce Thompson Burt Jones Chuck Hufstetler David Shafer Dean Burke Greg Kirk Jesse Stone P. K. Martin IV Renee Unterman Rick Jeffares Steve Gooch William Ligon, Jr.	9	16	1	2016-01-28	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b41b7bfc-4fae-47a8-8d91-e8f084ddb057	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	06070090879ef7ff6cc6cf54a6e10c548030e8eee54561d83f60fec7c8d3c895	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 308 (2015_16) — Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program; establish; definitions; administration and duties

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to establish the Positive Alternatives for Pregnancy and Parenting Grant Program; to provide for a purpose; to provide for definitions; to provide for administration and duties; to provide for grant services; to provide criteria; to provide for record maintenance and reporting; to provide for reports to the General Assembly; to provide for funding; to provide for redesignation of certain Code provisions and conforming changes; to expand authorized expenditure of contributed funds; 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 2087 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 2121S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 3 (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 3a (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amendment 1 AM 370302 (committee substitute) — source
7. Floor amendment 2 (committee substitute) — source
8. LC 33 6593S/hss (committee substitute) — source
9. SB 308/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 38–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• David Shafer — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-01 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
• 2016-02-11 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-11 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-11 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-31 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 360 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b41b7bfc-4fae-47a8-8d91-e8f084ddb057. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).