republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-350.md

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Bill	Group-care facility operators; persons otherwise issued licenses as provided by law; provide exceptions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-12-1.1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to child, family, or group-care facility operators prohibited from employing or allowing to reside or be domiciled persons with certain past criminal violations, so as to provide for exceptions for persons otherwise issued licenses as provided by law; to amend Chapter 1A of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to early care and learning; 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	2013_14	HB 350	Georgia HB 350 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Allen Peake Bill Hitchens Christian Coomer Jay Neal Matt Hatchett Matt Ramsey	4	15	1	2013-02-13	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2488a1c0-5a58-4e33-bc37-d549139bdf0f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	df0bb35e46a89695e781d38efb7dd4ab0e8912c5714708e9035819a59e88ccce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 350 (2013_14) — Group-care facility operators; persons otherwise issued licenses as provided by law; provide exceptions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 16-12-1.1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to child, family, or group-care facility operators prohibited from employing or allowing to reside or be domiciled persons with certain past criminal violations, so as to provide for exceptions for persons otherwise issued licenses as provided by law; to amend Chapter 1A of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to early care and learning; 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. HB 350/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 21 2090/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 29 5557S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 29 5557S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 154–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen Peake — primary (person)
• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Christian Coomer — primary (person)
• Jay Neal — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Matt Ramsey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-13 House Hopper
• 2013-02-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-01 Act 126 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2488a1c0-5a58-4e33-bc37-d549139bdf0f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).