Georgia Senate Bill 368 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-18 - Senate Read and Referred
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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 prohibit child-placing agencies from being required to perform, assist, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any placement of a child for foster care or adoption when the placement violates certain religious or moral convictions of the child-placing agency; to provide for nondiscrimination of such child-placing agencies by entities of state and local government; to provide that certain actions shall not form the basis of a civil action; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Children and Youth Services; child-placing agencies from being required to perform or participate; when placement violates certain religious or moral convictions of the child-placing agency; prohibit

Sen. Marty Harbin [R]	Sen. Steve Gooch [R]	Sen. Michael Dugan [R]	Sen. Bruce Thompson [R]
Sen. Jeff Mullis [R]	Sen. Chuck Payne [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-18	Senate	Senate Read and Referred
2020-02-05	Senate	Senate Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/57234
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20192020/189473