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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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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.

  1. Floor Amendment AM 48 0006 (committee substitute) — source
  2. HB 478/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 48 0075/a (committee substitute) — source
  4. Sen ctee sub LC 48 0112S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1512 (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).