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type: "Bill"
title: "Child support; defined terms and terminology, grammar, and punctuation; revise and correct"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 19-6-15, relating to child support guidelines for determining amount of award, continuation of duty of support, and duration of support, so as to revise and correct defined terms and terminology, grammar, and punctuation; to remove alimony as a specific deviation in certain circumstances; to exclude certain adoption assistance benefits from gross income; to clarify provisions relating to willful or voluntary unemployment or underemployment; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 381"
citation: "Georgia HB 381 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Mary Oliver", "Timothy Barr"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1db0c81-f122-4588-b1df-d4707e9241c1"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "b746c8605fccc15d04fc68ec6a3a84aad0381c289baf0f1b28a9e05445d39d17"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 381 (2019_20) — Child support; defined terms and terminology, grammar, and punctuation; revise and correct
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 19-6-15, relating to child support guidelines for determining amount of award, continuation of duty of support, and duration of support, so as to revise and correct defined terms and terminology, grammar, and punctuation; to remove alimony as a specific deviation in certain circumstances; to exclude certain adoption assistance benefits from gross income; to clarify provisions relating to willful or voluntary unemployment or underemployment; 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 381/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187609.pdf)
2. **LC 29 8162/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182023.pdf)
3. **LC 41 1907S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184204.pdf)
4. **LC 41 1907S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183460.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 41 2020S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186372.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **162–6** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
- Timothy Barr — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-20** House Hopper
- **2019-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Tabled
- **2019-04-02** Senate Taken from Table
- **2019-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-04-02** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-11** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 219 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1db0c81-f122-4588-b1df-d4707e9241c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).