Archives: Bills

Create eligibility requirements for certain mental health and substance abuse professionals to have their student loans repaid.

Allow release on bail for certain misdemeanor offenses and limit unsecured judicial releases. Limit the role of charitable bail funds, revise surety liability, and outline procedures for forfeiture of bonds and return of compensation to the principal. Adjusts fees for bail recovery agent education programs and updates procedures for execution hearings and judgments on forfeitures.

Add the commissioner of veterans’ services to the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council.

Allow for marriage and family therapists that have an endorsement to have a faster licensing process.

Create a stable housing accountability program as well as allow for certain funds to be used on homelessness programs, and to provide for disbursements into the trust fund for the homeless.

Limit the liability of mental health professionals in some circumstances when it comes to tort lawsuits.

For employees with a state health insurance plans, drugs that are self-administered will be reimbursed at a set index price plus a dispersing fee.

Set the ratio of on-site staff for personal care homes to one direct care staff member for every 15 residents during waking hours and 20 for night time for personal care homes with 25 or more beds. Also set the minimum to 2 staff members on site at all times, and a staff member assigned to each occupied floor; however, if a medical alert system is in place, staff members are allowed to leave the floor and move about the grounds.

Create and maintain a database for all nicotine vapor products that can be sold in the state of Georgia, and to ban the sale of anything not included in the database.

Governmental budget from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025