republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-1083.md

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Bill	Community Health, Department of; adult residential mental health services licensing; extend grace periods	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to adult residential mental health services licensing, so as to extend grace periods applicable to the Department of Community Health, including creation and promulgation of rules and regulations and the issuance of a one-time provisional license; to extend the grace period for adult residential mental health programs to obtain licensure and the time during which they may continue to operate before being deemed an "unlicensed adult residential mental health program"; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 1083	Georgia HB 1083 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Bruce Williamson Todd Jones	4	15	2	2024-01-30	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/3833e0db-0d26-4321-9b65-1888b3a44926	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	39f813719727fd1450637683bdea3ad2eb0cc3e57bc16aa3a83fec9750d015ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1083 (2023_24) — Community Health, Department of; adult residential mental health services licensing; extend grace periods

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to adult residential mental health services licensing, so as to extend grace periods applicable to the Department of Community Health, including creation and promulgation of rules and regulations and the issuance of a one-time provisional license; to extend the grace period for adult residential mental health programs to obtain licensure and the time during which they may continue to operate before being deemed an "unlicensed adult residential mental health program"; 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 1083/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 54 0304/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 54 0348S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 54 0348S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #701 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #475 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 161–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bruce Williamson — primary (person)
• Todd Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-31 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-07 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-15 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-07 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-20 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-23 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Act 475 executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3833e0db-0d26-4321-9b65-1888b3a44926. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).