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Bill Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002; revise provisions 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 revise provisions relating to safe place for newborns; to expand the locations where a newborn child can be left to include fire stations and police stations; to provide for definitions; to allow the mother to decline to provide her name and address when a child is left in the physical custody of certain facilities; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2017_18 HB 391 Georgia HB 391 (2017_18)
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David Clark
Jimmy Pruett
Katie Dempsey
Mandi Ballinger
Sharon Cooper
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Georgia HB 391 (2017_18) — Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002; revise provisions

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 revise provisions relating to safe place for newborns; to expand the locations where a newborn child can be left to include fire stations and police stations; to provide for definitions; to allow the mother to decline to provide her name and address when a child is left in the physical custody of certain facilities; 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 — 1730 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Christian Coomer — primary (person)
  • David Clark — primary (person)
  • Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
  • Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
  • Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
  • Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-02-15 House Hopper
  • 2017-02-16 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2017-02-17 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2017-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-01 House Postponed
  • 2017-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2017-03-03 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2017-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2017-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-03-15 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2017-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2017-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2017-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2017-05-08 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2017-05-08 Act 202 executive-signature
  • 2017-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16303876-5236-4934-89d1-102542803950. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).