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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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0 | 16 | 1 | 2017-02-15 | 2017-07-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/16303876-5236-4934-89d1-102542803950 | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | fd3a5996e56d9687d4e44374ef3482b73a0bb74de84e08a1e6f1b12cb9b1061c | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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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 — 173–0 (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).