republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-373.md

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Bill	Licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy; issuance of expedited licenses by endorsement for marriage and family therapists; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-10A-13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to requirements for licensure in marriage and family therapy, so as to provide for the issuance of expedited licenses by endorsement for marriage and family therapists; to provide a definition; to provide for legislative construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 373	Georgia SB 373 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Brian Strickland Chuck Hufstetler Elena Parent Jason Anavitarte Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson Larry Walker, III Nan Orrock Sonya Halpern	4	16	3	2024-01-23	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/cbe1e966-8e70-48d7-af0a-87432ce5b881	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	96e404f9b782839a322fdeb296973cda78f06ba8ad1db4f40d51b3db136a0601	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 373 (2023_24) — Licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy; issuance of expedited licenses by endorsement for marriage and family therapists; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-10A-13 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to requirements for licensure in marriage and family therapy, so as to provide for the issuance of expedited licenses by endorsement for marriage and family therapists; to provide a definition; to provide for legislative construction; 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 46 0744 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 36 5845S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 373/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #470 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #753 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 159–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #865 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-23 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-29 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-07 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-21 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-02 Act 557 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cbe1e966-8e70-48d7-af0a-87432ce5b881. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).