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type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission; create"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to governing and regulation of mental health, so as to create the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for a definition; to provide for members and officers; to provide for meetings, agendas, quorum, and compensation; to provide for the commission's duties and powers; to provide for subcommittees; to provide for automatic repeal; 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 514"
citation: "Georgia HB 514 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ralston", "Jan Jones", "Kevin Tanner", "Mary Oliver", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d2af982-9608-4e2c-8892-b0665d732e5b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0a17fc9f9ef23bc9b025459f8ebdc9d0fa5f83ad6df4add23ec5a337d7e1d512"
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 514 (2019_20) — Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission; create
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to governing and regulation of mental health, so as to create the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for a definition; to provide for members and officers; to provide for meetings, agendas, quorum, and compensation; to provide for the commission's duties and powers; to provide for subcommittees; to provide for automatic repeal; 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 33 1904** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186922.pdf)
2. **HB 514/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187520.pdf)
3. **LC 33 7803/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183069.pdf)
4. **LC 33 7903S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184239.pdf)
5. **LC 33 7903S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183986.pdf)
6. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 7947S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184626.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **152–10** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- David Ralston — primary (person)
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Kevin Tanner — primary (person)
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-27** House Hopper
- **2019-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** 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`
- **2019-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-29** 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`
- **2019-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-06** Act 216 `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/7d2af982-9608-4e2c-8892-b0665d732e5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).