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Read. Follow. Verify.Georgia requires Department of Behavioral Health to create electronic inpatient psychiatric bed registry
Last action · February 11, 2025: House Withdrawn Bill/Res ConsiderationSponsors: Sandra Scott and 2 others
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What This Bill Proposed
HB 19 requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to create, operate, and maintain an electronic registry for , and to share this registry data with the operator of the .
Changes how emergency mental health services coordinate care by establishing a centralized real-time tracking system for available psychiatric beds across the state.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
Must create, operate, and maintain an electronic registry for inpatient psychiatric beds and share data with the crisis line operator.
Georgia Crisis and Access Line operator
Receives electronic registry data regarding inpatient psychiatric bed availability.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
4 actions- Feb 11, 2025HouseHouse Withdrawn Bill/Res Consideration
- Jan 15, 2025HouseHouse Second Readers
- Jan 14, 2025HouseIntroducedHouse First Readers
- Jan 13, 2025HouseIntroducedHouse Hopper
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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