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| Bill | Supporting and Strengthening Families Act; enact | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to provide for the creation, authorization, procedure, revocation, recision, and termination of a power of attorney from a parent to an agent for the temporary delegation of certain power and authority for the care and custody of his or her child; to repeal the "Power of Attorney for the Care of a Minor Child Act"; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedure; to grandfather certain provisions relating to a power of attorney given to a grandparent; to provide a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2017_18 | HB 359 | Georgia HB 359 (2017_18) |
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0 | 14 | 1 | 2017-02-14 | 2017-05-09 | openstates | ocd-bill/6d0a3475-ff0a-42b4-bced-95c73a5f3e13 | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 43294c5362ceb975f6e65ec920bb2121e81cf0de4a88815b3a2a3283538e442b | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia HB 359 (2017_18) — Supporting and Strengthening Families Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to provide for the creation, authorization, procedure, revocation, recision, and termination of a power of attorney from a parent to an agent for the temporary delegation of certain power and authority for the care and custody of his or her child; to repeal the "Power of Attorney for the Care of a Minor Child Act"; to provide for definitions; to provide for procedure; to grandfather certain provisions relating to a power of attorney given to a grandparent; to provide a short title; to provide for legislative findings; 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.
Votes
- PASSAGE — 124–39 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
- Beth Beskin — primary (person)
- Geoff Duncan — primary (person)
- Meagan Hanson — primary (person)
- Regina Quick — primary (person)
- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-02-14 House Hopper
- 2017-02-15 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2017-02-16 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2017-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-03-03 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2017-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2017-03-06 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2017-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-03-13 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2017-03-15 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2017-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted
passage - 2017-04-03 House Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2017-05-09 House Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2017-05-09 Veto V4
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d0a3475-ff0a-42b4-bced-95c73a5f3e13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).