republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-401.md

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Bill	Senate Foster Care and Adoption Study Committee; implement recommendations	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the juvenile code, so as to implement the recommendations of the Senate Foster Care and Adoption Study Committee; to provide for annual reporting to the General Assembly of certain de-identified data from juvenile court clerks relating to foster children who are in need of services or delinquent; to remove the service of summons by publication requirement at the adjudication phase in dependency proceedings; to repeal Code Section 15-11-163, relating to interlocutory order of disposition when summons served by publication; to provide that the petition to terminate parental rights be immediately filed and docketed without delay when presented to the juvenile court clerk; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 401	Georgia SB 401 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Blake Tillery Chuck Payne Harold Jones II John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson Matt Brass Max Burns Randy Robertson	5	15	3	2024-01-25	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7d9581ae-29b9-42aa-baac-2ad5ac93a130	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	6ced126ad659a0e3c6e426942370cec728b489c528fdb8942ca29dea705d3a7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 401 (2023_24) — Senate Foster Care and Adoption Study Committee; implement recommendations

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 15 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the juvenile code, so as to implement the recommendations of the Senate Foster Care and Adoption Study Committee; to provide for annual reporting to the General Assembly of certain de-identified data from juvenile court clerks relating to foster children who are in need of services or delinquent; to remove the service of summons by publication requirement at the adjudication phase in dependency proceedings; to repeal Code Section 15-11-163, relating to interlocutory order of disposition when summons served by publication; to provide that the petition to terminate parental rights be immediately filed and docketed without delay when presented to the juvenile court clerk; 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 57 0063 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 57 0085S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 57 0001 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 401/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #705 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 170–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #534 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #533 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Harold Jones II — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-25 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-16 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
• 2024-03-08 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
• 2024-04-23 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Act 468 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d9581ae-29b9-42aa-baac-2ad5ac93a130. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).