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Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide

It became law on May 11.

GA HB 1097 · House Bill · 2025_26

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Latest action
Jul 1

Where it stands

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Jul 1

What it does

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to mental health, so as to provide for criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; to provide for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to submit fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Georgia Crime Information Center for the purpose of background checks to find disqualifying records; to provide for maintenance of personnel files; to provide for procedures relating to applicants or employees with ineligible determinations; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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Law in Georgia. Agencies now write the rules that carry it out, and courts can stay or strike it.

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