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type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Code; adoption proceedings be stayed while an appeal to terminate parental rights is pending; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for the Juvenile Code, so as to provide that adoption proceedings be stayed while an appeal of an order to terminate parental rights is pending; to clarify the court's duties to a case while an appeal is pending; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 131"
citation: "Georgia SB 131 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "Jesse Stone"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b20048f4-da99-4f7c-9a40-31e2ce31c521"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0ce1d718bf77f7c4fa32f6a2bcb2e2be8051d43d3cb29b1ebf647aa59d883bf7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia SB 131 (2017_18) — Juvenile Code; adoption proceedings be stayed while an appeal to terminate parental rights is pending; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions for the Juvenile Code, so as to provide that adoption proceedings be stayed while an appeal of an order to terminate parental rights is pending; to clarify the court's duties to a case while an appeal is pending; 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 BY SUBSTITUTE — **520** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-07** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-08** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-01-30** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-01** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-08** Act 474 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b20048f4-da99-4f7c-9a40-31e2ce31c521`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).