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Bill Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to mental health, so as to provide for criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; to provide for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to submit fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Georgia Crime Information Center for the purpose of background checks to find disqualifying records; to provide for maintenance of personnel files; to provide for procedures relating to applicants or employees with ineligible determinations; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 HB 1097 Georgia HB 1097 (2025_26)
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CRIMES AND OFFENSES (CRIMINAL CODE)
HANDICAPPED PERSONS
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES
MENTAL HEALTH
enacted
Jesse Petrea
Katie Dempsey
Mike Cameron
Scott Hilton
Steven Sainz
5 16 3 2026-01-29 2026-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/bc83e304-7e36-441b-9348-430aff44d798 http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 0f71189b7bd69e535b22ee453c4368f0e460b62aa8b1fb6fecfd71553f3e7dad 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 1097 (2025_26) — Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to mental health, so as to provide for criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; to provide for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to submit fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Georgia Crime Information Center for the purpose of background checks to find disqualifying records; to provide for maintenance of personnel files; to provide for procedures relating to applicants or employees with ineligible determinations; to provide for definitions; 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. HB 1097/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 62 0311/a (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 62 0404S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 62 0404S/hs (committee substitute) — source
  5. Sen Ctee Sub LC 52 1089S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #775 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 440 (pass) · upper
  • House Vote #780 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1602 (pass) · lower
  • House Vote #579 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1642 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
  • Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
  • Mike Cameron — primary (person)
  • Scott Hilton — primary (person)
  • Steven Sainz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2026-01-29 House Hopper introduction
  • 2026-02-02 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2026-02-03 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2026-02-18 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-02-26 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2026-02-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2026-03-03 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2026-03-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-03-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2026-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2026-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2026-03-27 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
  • 2026-04-10 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2026-05-11 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2026-05-11 Act 444 executive-signature
  • 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc83e304-7e36-441b-9348-430aff44d798. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).