republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-116.md

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Bill	Children and Youth Services; registration of maternity supportive house residences to provide housing for pregnant women; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to children and youth services, so as to provide for registration of maternity supportive housing residences to provide housing for pregnant women; to define a term; to provide for requirements; to prohibit additional rules and regulations; to prohibit constraints imposed by local governments; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to provide a short title; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 116	Georgia SB 116 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Bruce Thompson Chuck Payne Jason Anavitarte Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Randy Robertson	5	16	1	2021-02-09	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b412338c-ebb9-4967-9939-3d1aa171ffc6	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9be34afbee876431b7c3ba33c855a0d1687aa3c1e6d486b5f012c8b69d7e91ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 116 (2021_22) — Children and Youth Services; registration of maternity supportive house residences to provide housing for pregnant women; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 5 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to children and youth services, so as to provide for registration of maternity supportive housing residences to provide housing for pregnant women; to define a term; to provide for requirements; to prohibit additional rules and regulations; to prohibit constraints imposed by local governments; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to provide a short title; 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. As introduced LC 33 8570 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 8647S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 9156S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 116/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 32–17 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-09 Senate Hopper
• 2021-02-10 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-22 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2021-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2021-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2021-03-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2021-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-29 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-04-01 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Act 787 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b412338c-ebb9-4967-9939-3d1aa171ffc6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).