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Bill Grandparents or Family Members Visitation Rights; provisions regarding visitation actions brought by certain grandparents of minor children; revise A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 19-7-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to actions by grandparents or other family members for visitation rights or intervention, revocation or amendment of visitation rights, appointment of guardian ad litem, mediation, hearing, and notification to family members of child's participation in events, so as to revise provisions regarding visitation actions brought by certain grandparents of minor children; to provide for a rebuttable presumption; to provide for a response to Patten v. Ardis, 304 Ga. 140 (2018); to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2021_22 SB 576 Georgia SB 576 (2021_22)
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Georgia SB 576 (2021_22) — Grandparents or Family Members Visitation Rights; provisions regarding visitation actions brought by certain grandparents of minor children; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 19-7-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to actions by grandparents or other family members for visitation rights or intervention, revocation or amendment of visitation rights, appointment of guardian ad litem, mediation, hearing, and notification to family members of child's participation in events, so as to revise provisions regarding visitation actions brought by certain grandparents of minor children; to provide for a rebuttable presumption; to provide for a response to Patten v. Ardis, 304 Ga. 140 (2018); 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.

  1. As introduced LC 49 0869 (committee substitute) — source
  2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB 576/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 490 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Brian Strickland — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-03-01 Senate Hopper
  • 2022-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2022-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2022-03-15 Senate Tabled
  • 2022-03-15 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2022-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2022-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2022-03-16 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2022-03-17 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2022-03-29 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-04-01 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2022-04-01 House Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2022-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2022-05-12 Act 866 executive-signature
  • 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7f1f721-f664-4d62-b6d9-5931d53e7e55. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).