republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-375.md

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Bill	Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; add commissioner of veterans service	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 37-2-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council, membership, meetings, and obligations, so as to add the commissioner of veterans service as a member of such council; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 375	Georgia SB 375 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Brian Strickland Chuck Payne Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson	3	15	2	2024-01-23	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8c4259ff-3112-490e-973f-22a283ecffae	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d71e5fc1f586c11f6b83c65a301b5a1ca9a30a022f0b29555f7acd913b59a716	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 375 (2023_24) — Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; add commissioner of veterans service

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 37-2-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council, membership, meetings, and obligations, so as to add the commissioner of veterans service as a member of such council; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 46 0748 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 375/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #662 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 167–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #524 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — 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
• 2024-02-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-22 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-26 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-05 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-22 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Act 420 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8c4259ff-3112-490e-973f-22a283ecffae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).