Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 3. EXAMINATION, TREATMENT, ETC., FOR MENTAL ILLNESS · Article 7. ADULT RESIDENTIAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES LICENSING

37-3-205. Regulatory and licensing authority.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Effective January 1, 2026.In force today: Effective January 1, 2026.

(a)
The department is authorized and directed to create and promulgate all rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this article no later than January 1, 2025.#
(b)
The department is further authorized to issue, deny, suspend, or revoke a license or take other enforcement actions against a licensee or applicant as provided in Article 3 of Chapter 2 of this title.#
(c)
All rules and regulations and any enforcement actions initiated by the department shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 13 of Title 50, the “Georgia Administrative Procedure Act.”#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 37-3-205, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 587, § 1/HB 1069; Ga. L. 2024, p. 382, § 1/HB 1083, effective April 23, 2024; Ga. L. 2025, p. 177, § 3-3/HB 584, effective January 1, 2026.

Delayed effective date

Code Section 37-3-205 is set out twice in this Code. This version is effective January 1, 2026. For version effective until January 1, 2026, see the preceding version.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective April 23, 2024, substituted “January 1, 2025” for “July 1, 2023” at the end of subsection (a). The 2025 amendment, effective January 1, 2026, rewrote subsection (b), which read: “The department is further authorized to issue, deny, suspend, or revoke licenses or take other enforcement actions against licensees or applicants as provided in Code Section 31-2-8.”

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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Effective until January 1, 2026.No longer in force as printed (Effective until January 1, 2026.)

(a)
The department is authorized and directed to create and promulgate all rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this article no later than January 1, 2025.#
(b)
The department is further authorized to issue, deny, suspend, or revoke licenses or take other enforcement actions against licensees or applicants as provided in Code Section 31-2-8.#
(c)
All rules and regulations and any enforcement actions initiated by the department shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 13 of Title 50, the “Georgia Administrative Procedure Act.”#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 37-3-205, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 587, § 1/HB 1069; Ga. L. 2024, p. 382, § 1/HB 1083, effective April 23, 2024.

Delayed effective date

Code Section 37-3-205 is set out twice in this Code. This version is effective until January 1, 2026. For version effective January 1, 2026, see the following version.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective April 23, 2024, substituted “January 1, 2025” for “July 1, 2023” at the end of subsection (a).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, 2025 supplement, page 88; merge action: added; file SHA-256 6e7899178423.

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