republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-21.md

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Bill	Adoption; postadoption contact agreements; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to adoption, so as to provide for postadoption contact agreements; to provide for procedure; to provide for jurisdiction; to provide for modification of such agreements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 21	Georgia HB 21 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Mary Oliver	6	19	1	2012-11-29	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1c1a1965-d160-41db-9214-303c2257d2f3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2b0c157249dcebe2c09e7b24b8426aaecc6892e082556ca07cd8b17b31571fc9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 21 (2013_14) — Adoption; postadoption contact agreements; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to adoption, so as to provide for postadoption contact agreements; to provide for procedure; to provide for jurisdiction; to provide for modification of such agreements; 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 21/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 29 5337/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5337/pf (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5554S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 5554S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen ctee sub LC 29 5642S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 157–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mary Oliver — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-11-29 House Prefiled introduction
• 2013-01-14 House Hopper
• 2013-01-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-01-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-01 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-26 Senate Tabled
• 2013-03-28 Senate Taken from Table
• 2013-03-28 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-28 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-03 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-07 Act 337 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c1a1965-d160-41db-9214-303c2257d2f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).