Mental Health; the re-creation of community service boards; provide

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Plain-English Summary

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…

Source: OpenStates · fetched April 10, 2026

Who it affects

Medicaid / public insurance

via Georgians for a Healthy Future: Restructures governance of Georgia's community service boards by transferring the authority to appoint local executive directors from local governing boards to the DBHDD Commissioner, removing a ke…

Low-income / working-class

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Medicaid / public insurancedirectModerate impactMedium certainty
via Georgians for a Healthy Future
Restructures governance of Georgia's community service boards by transferring the authority to appoint local executive directors from local governing boards to the DBHDD Commissioner, removing a ke…
Low-income / working-classdirectModerate impactMedium certainty
via Georgians for a Healthy Future
Restructures governance of Georgia's community service boards by transferring the authority to appoint local executive directors from local governing boards to the DBHDD Commissioner, removing a ke…

What the Bill Does

PASSED; awaits the Governor's signature. Senate companion to HB 1368.

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