republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-53.md

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Bill	Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; revise sunset prov.; repeal in its entirety June 30, 2018	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to mental health and authorizing a licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts, Act No. 546, approved April 21, 2014 (Ga L. 2014, p. 347), so as to revise a sunset provision; to provide for an effective date; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 53	Georgia SB 53 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Fran Millar Greg Kirk Jesse Stone Nan Orrock Renee Unterman Tyler Harper William Ligon, Jr.	3	17	1	2015-01-26	2015-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/9faee79d-7bdf-4e64-aa96-697b3e2b9000	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6d3f0dac54797770b7e12ea09471afac2362f1d9935e389b14ef797dc5f98022	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 53 (2015_16) — Mental Health; authorizing licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts; revise sunset prov.; repeal in its entirety June 30, 2018

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend an Act relating to mental health and authorizing a licensed professional counselor to perform certain acts, Act No. 546, approved April 21, 2014 (Ga L. 2014, p. 347), so as to revise a sunset provision; to provide for an effective date; 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 1867 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 53/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• MOTION TO REMOVE FROM THE TABLE — 31–21 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-26 Senate Hopper
• 2015-01-27 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-02-02 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-02-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-02-04 Senate Tabled
• 2015-02-09 Senate Taken from Table
• 2015-02-09 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-02-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-19 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-25 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-03-06 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-03-10 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-03-10 Act 8 executive-signature
• 2015-03-10 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9faee79d-7bdf-4e64-aa96-697b3e2b9000. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).