republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-402.md

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Bill	Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to drug abuse treatment and education programs, so as to provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs; to create the State Commission on Narcotic Treatment Programs; to provide legislative findings and intent; to provide for the membership, powers, duties, compensation, and allowances of the commission; to provide for the abolishment of the commission; to suspend the acceptance of applications and issuing of licenses for narcotic treatment programs for a certain period; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 402	Georgia SB 402 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Dean Burke Jeff Mullis Tyler Harper	5	15	1	2016-02-18	2016-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/63681c18-53aa-4a4d-bb59-f1e2103f1bb3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3394bcf7adff0a9243ec4881ca9223318d0d258f14b17779190c3decd591266e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 402 (2015_16) — Drug Abuse Treatment and Education Programs; provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to drug abuse treatment and education programs, so as to provide for a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses to narcotic treatment programs; to create the State Commission on Narcotic Treatment Programs; to provide legislative findings and intent; to provide for the membership, powers, duties, compensation, and allowances of the commission; to provide for the abolishment of the commission; to suspend the acceptance of applications and issuing of licenses for narcotic treatment programs for a certain period; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; 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 2143 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 2165S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 37 2193S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 402/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-19 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-26 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-03-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-15 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-15 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 343 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/63681c18-53aa-4a4d-bb59-f1e2103f1bb3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).