republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-384.md

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Bill	Public Officers and Employees; development and administration of the State of Georgia as a Model Employer (GAME) Program; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 19 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to labor practices relative to public officers and employees, so as to provide for the development and administration of the State of Georgia as a Model Employer (GAME) Program for the recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of qualified individuals with disabilities at all levels and for all occupations; to establish state policy; to provide for definitions; to provide for certain duties of the State ADA Coordinator; to establish the elements of the GAME Program; to provide for the development of plans by state agencies; to provide for reporting; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 384	Georgia SB 384 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Billy Hickman Brandon Beach Jason Esteves John Albers Sonya Halpern	4	18	3	2024-01-24	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/98498877-1bad-431e-9911-1d2c7afe51cc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	38b801fe33b00096c20040f1770a97d1c1df426ded2484c03cb0fc594c2a2675	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 384 (2023_24) — Public Officers and Employees; development and administration of the State of Georgia as a Model Employer (GAME) Program; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 19 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to labor practices relative to public officers and employees, so as to provide for the development and administration of the State of Georgia as a Model Employer (GAME) Program for the recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of qualified individuals with disabilities at all levels and for all occupations; to establish state policy; to provide for definitions; to provide for certain duties of the State ADA Coordinator; to establish the elements of the GAME Program; to provide for the development of plans by state agencies; to provide for reporting; 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. As introduced LC 36 5644 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 52 0565S/hrcs (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 384/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #795 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 51–1 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #547 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 51–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #786 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 157–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Jason Esteves — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-24 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-25 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-29 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-03-07 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2024-03-26 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2024-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-03-26 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-02 Act 558 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98498877-1bad-431e-9911-1d2c7afe51cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).