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type: "Bill"
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title: "Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002; revise provisions"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to revise provisions relating to safe place for newborns; to expand the locations where a newborn child can be left to include fire stations and police stations; to provide for definitions; to allow the mother to decline to provide her name and address when a child is left in the physical custody of certain facilities; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2017_18"
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identifier: "HB 391"
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citation: "Georgia HB 391 (2017_18)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Christian Coomer", "David Clark", "Jimmy Pruett", "Katie Dempsey", "Mandi Ballinger", "Sharon Cooper"]
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version_count: 0
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2017-02-15"
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last_action: "2017-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16303876-5236-4934-89d1-102542803950"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "fd3a5996e56d9687d4e44374ef3482b73a0bb74de84e08a1e6f1b12cb9b1061c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 391 (2017_18) — Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002; revise provisions
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to domestic relations, so as to revise provisions relating to safe place for newborns; to expand the locations where a newborn child can be left to include fire stations and police stations; to provide for definitions; to allow the mother to decline to provide her name and address when a child is left in the physical custody of certain facilities; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **173–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
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- David Clark — primary (person)
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- Jimmy Pruett — primary (person)
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- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
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- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
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- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-15** House Hopper
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- **2017-02-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-01** House Postponed
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- **2017-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2017-03-03** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2017-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2017-03-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2017-03-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2017-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2017-05-08** Act 202 `executive-signature`
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- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16303876-5236-4934-89d1-102542803950`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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