republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-377.md

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Bill	Courts and Social Services; licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 15 and 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the courts and social services, respectively, so as to provide for the licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; to revise the definition of "qualified residential treatment program" to conform with federal law; to provide for definitions; 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 377	Georgia SB 377 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Brian Strickland Chuck Payne Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Max Burns Shawn Still	3	15	2	2024-01-23	2024-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/6f38319e-4092-4894-9f9f-9bdf01df3deb	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0ad19f18a648c3ff27d104356990ba8ed0b5249591c540060b548b4255ee6b8c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 377 (2023_24) — Courts and Social Services; licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 15 and 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the courts and social services, respectively, so as to provide for the licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; to revise the definition of "qualified residential treatment program" to conform with federal law; to provide for definitions; 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 52 0385 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 377/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #457 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 50–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #666 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — 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
• 2024-01-30 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-31 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-01 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-07 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-16 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-07 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-07 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-19 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-19 Act 382 executive-signature
• 2024-04-19 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f38319e-4092-4894-9f9f-9bdf01df3deb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).