republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-383.md

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Bill	Child Abuse; local child fatality review committees; modify the review	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child abuse, so as to modify the review to be performed by local child fatality review committees; to add members to such committees; to provide for required attendance for training; to clarify the scope of child deaths subject to review; to modify deadlines and requirements for reports relating to child deaths; to modify the procedures of the coroner or medical examiner and the review committee in identifying child deaths that meet the statutory criteria for review by the review committee; to make conforming changes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 383	Georgia SB 383 (2025_26)	bill	DOMESTIC RELATIONS	enacted	Bo Hatchett Elena Parent John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Kim Jackson Nan Orrock Randy Robertson Sonya Halpern Timothy Bearden	3	15	2	2026-01-12	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/70b80450-42c0-4c7c-9a32-4201a1fddda8	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	709a1d284d0a5bb38326b1d3ff47e1688eca41ca0b68d84082b1b8acc1f679ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 383 (2025_26) — Child Abuse; local child fatality review committees; modify the review

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child abuse, so as to modify the review to be performed by local child fatality review committees; to add members to such committees; to provide for required attendance for training; to clarify the scope of child deaths subject to review; to modify deadlines and requirements for reports relating to child deaths; to modify the procedures of the coroner or medical examiner and the review committee in identifying child deaths that meet the statutory criteria for review by the review committee; to make conforming changes; 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 63 0021 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 383/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #523 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #719 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-12 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-01-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-29 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-06 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-02-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-02-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-06 Act 421 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70b80450-42c0-4c7c-9a32-4201a1fddda8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).