republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-376.md

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Bill	Juvenile Code; improve timely permanent placement of a child removed from their home; clarify requirements	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Juvenile Code, so as to clarify requirements of parents, DFCS, and court in order to improve timely permanent placement of a child removed from their home; to provide for a hearing to be held prior to a dependent child's fifteenth month in foster care to review a determination of the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services not to petition to terminate parental rights; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 376	Georgia SB 376 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Brian Strickland Chuck Payne Jason Anavitarte Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Max Burns Shawn Still	4	15	2	2024-01-23	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/b892a563-1a92-4063-8859-4f00a920e820	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	5e8d09ecb4de49a025313146627dfe6da29200fd7963f53d7be874fa54fc5e03	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 376 (2023_24) — Juvenile Code; improve timely permanent placement of a child removed from their home; clarify requirements

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Juvenile Code, so as to clarify requirements of parents, DFCS, and court in order to improve timely permanent placement of a child removed from their home; to provide for a hearing to be held prior to a dependent child's fifteenth month in foster care to review a determination of the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services not to petition to terminate parental rights; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 52 0375 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 57 0073S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB376/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #703 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 166–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #530 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — 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
• 2024-02-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-18 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 421 executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b892a563-1a92-4063-8859-4f00a920e820. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).