Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Bill | Social services; improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; provide | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the central child abuse registry, so as to provide improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; to provide definitions; to provide for notice of abuse allegations; to provide for reporting abuse cases to DFACS office; to provide for hearing on expungement of name from registry; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2019_20 | HB 478 | Georgia HB 478 (2019_20) |
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4 | 17 | 1 | 2019-02-25 | 2020-01-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/d5ccec0f-debe-42a3-9c55-70b12f091341 | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | 1dffd6477b6418434ed82c42da634f8e93a43ab77b68d7fc7bbf0e66cc201f38 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia HB 478 (2019_20) — Social services; improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 8 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the central child abuse registry, so as to provide improvements to the operation of the child abuse registry; to provide definitions; to provide for notice of abuse allegations; to provide for reporting abuse cases to DFACS office; to provide for hearing on expungement of name from registry; 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.
- Floor Amendment AM 48 0006 (committee substitute) — source
- HB 478/AP* (committee substitute) — source
- LC 48 0075/a (committee substitute) — source
- Sen ctee sub LC 48 0112S (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- PASSAGE — 151–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Mandi Ballinger — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-02-25 House Hopper
- 2019-02-26 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2019-02-27 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2019-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2019-03-07 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2019-03-07 House Passed/Adopted
passage - 2019-03-08 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2019-03-21 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
committee-passage-favorable - 2019-03-22 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2019-03-29 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2019-03-29 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute
passage - 2019-04-02 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub As Amended
- 2019-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- 2019-04-11 House Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2019-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2019-05-07 Act 252
executive-signature - 2020-01-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5ccec0f-debe-42a3-9c55-70b12f091341. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).