republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-342.md

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Bill	Child Abuse Records; child abuse and neglect registries; authorize the disclosure	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 records, so as to authorize the disclosure or use of information from child abuse and neglect registries by the Department of Human Services to locate, recover, or provide services to a child determined to be missing or a victim of sexual exploitation; to provide for access to records concerning reports of child abuse and missing or exploited children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 342	Georgia SB 342 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Harold Jones II John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Matt Brass Randy Robertson	3	15	2	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/33d28523-2948-4d2c-908d-c487101966e4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7b2070f544a36b5cddf9bba4dae9dca09bf62bb52bfa7b6ec6a043515d9c948b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 342 (2023_24) — Child Abuse Records; child abuse and neglect registries; authorize the disclosure

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 records, so as to authorize the disclosure or use of information from child abuse and neglect registries by the Department of Human Services to locate, recover, or provide services to a child determined to be missing or a victim of sexual exploitation; to provide for access to records concerning reports of child abuse and missing or exploited children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 57 0035 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 342/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #438 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #690 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 171–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-01-29 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-01-30 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-01-31 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-08 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-13 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-08 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Act 373 executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/33d28523-2948-4d2c-908d-c487101966e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).