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type: "Bill"
title: "Courts and Social Services; licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 15 and 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the courts and social services, respectively, so as to provide for the licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; to revise the definition of \"qualified residential treatment program\" to conform with federal law; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "SB 377"
citation: "Georgia SB 377 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Tillery", "Brian Strickland", "Chuck Payne", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Lee Anderson", "Max Burns", "Shawn Still"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f38319e-4092-4894-9f9f-9bdf01df3deb"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0ad19f18a648c3ff27d104356990ba8ed0b5249591c540060b548b4255ee6b8c"
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 SB 377 (2023_24) — Courts and Social Services; licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 15 and 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the courts and social services, respectively, so as to provide for the licensing of qualified residential treatment programs; to revise the definition of "qualified residential treatment program" to conform with federal law; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 52 0385** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/221535.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/222718.pdf)
3. **SB 377/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/226733.pdf)
## Votes
- Senate Vote #457 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **50–1** (pass) · upper
- House Vote #666 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **168–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blake Tillery — primary (person)
- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Max Burns — primary (person)
- Shawn Still — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-23** Senate Hopper `introduction`
- **2024-01-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-02-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2024-02-07** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-19** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-19** Act 382 `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-19** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f38319e-4092-4894-9f9f-9bdf01df3deb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).