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House committee approves bill moving mental‑health and disability program licensure from DCH to DBHDD
Summary
A committee voted to give a due‑pass recommendation to a bill that reassigns licensure and programmatic oversight for mental‑health, substance‑use and developmental‑disability facilities from the Department of Community Health to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and shifts related appropriations.
A House committee gave a due‑pass recommendation to a bill that would transfer licensure authority for mental‑health, substance‑use treatment and certain developmental‑disability residential programs from the Georgia Department of Community Health to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.
Representative Petrie introduced House Bill 584 (LC 570238) as a departmental alignment measure, saying the change is intended to “align programs to where we have federal and state in the same place.”
The bill edits existing statutes to remove…
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