republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-535.md

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Bill	Mental Health; the re-creation of community service boards; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to mental health, so as to provide for the re-creation of community service boards; to amend Code Section 50-14-1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to meetings open to the public, limitation on action to contest agency action, recording, notice of time and place, access to minutes, and teleconferences, so as to revise a provision authorizing community service boards to conduct teleconference meetings under certain circumstances; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 535	Georgia SB 535 (2025_26)	bill	MENTAL HEALTH STATE GOVERNMENT	enacted	Kay Kirkpatrick	4	15	2	2026-02-19	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/783f35a0-255f-429e-a1ed-2ae58694a9f0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4c5101c11244127858c583233d9d575bdb4dc91bbd90656f97b4224149df3799	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 535 (2025_26) — Mental Health; the re-creation of community service boards; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to mental health, so as to provide for the re-creation of community service boards; to amend Code Section 50-14-1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to meetings open to the public, limitation on action to contest agency action, recording, notice of time and place, access to minutes, and teleconferences, so as to revise a provision authorizing community service boards to conduct teleconference meetings under certain circumstances; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 33 9872 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 33 9879S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 535/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #710 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 130–31 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #597 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 45–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-19 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2026-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2026-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2026-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2026-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2026-03-12 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-03-16 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-05 Act 412 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/783f35a0-255f-429e-a1ed-2ae58694a9f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).