Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
4.9 KiB
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| Bill | Child Abuse; permitted to access child abuse records by department, or county, or other state or local agency; extend; Central Child Abuse Registry; permit access | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child abuse, so as to extend the persons and agencies permitted to access child abuse records by the department or a county or other state or local agency; to amend Article 8 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Central Child Abuse Registry, so as to permit access to information in the child abuse registry to certain governmental entities investigating allegations of child abuse; to permit access to child abuse registry to certain child-placing entities conducting foster and adoptive parent background checks; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2017_18 | SB 168 | Georgia SB 168 (2017_18) |
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Georgia SB 168 (2017_18) — Child Abuse; permitted to access child abuse records by department, or county, or other state or local agency; extend; Central Child Abuse Registry; permit access
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child abuse, so as to extend the persons and agencies permitted to access child abuse records by the department or a county or other state or local agency; to amend Article 8 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Central Child Abuse Registry, so as to permit access to information in the child abuse registry to certain governmental entities investigating allegations of child abuse; to permit access to child abuse registry to certain child-placing entities conducting foster and adoptive parent background checks; 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 — 53–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-02-14 Senate Hopper
- 2017-02-15 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2017-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-02-27 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2017-02-28 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2017-02-28 Senate Passed/Adopted
passage - 2017-03-01 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2017-03-03 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2017-03-16 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2017-03-24 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2017-03-24 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2017-03-30 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- 2017-04-06 Senate Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2017-05-08 Senate Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2017-05-08 Act 170
executive-signature - 2017-07-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ed41ec9-b79a-45b0-8d1f-e8b77d053e51. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).