Negative Effects Of Senate Bill 375

Since we know Senate Bill 375 has a negative effects foster youth, same sex couples, and the funding for Georgia here are the long term effects that this bill will have on foster youths. Since same sex couples will be out of the loop adopting children out of the foster care system that takes up over 20 percent in the U.S. of that clientele amount. Children who lack permanent homes may experience a risk of a rocking transition to an successful adulthood because of lack of a support system, and children will be waiting longer to adopt than what they are experiencing currently. LEGISLATIVE PROCESS OF SB 375 Senate Bill 375 came into existence because of legislators William Ligon Jr., Jesse Stone, Steven Gooch, David Sharfi , Greg

The job of the judiciary Committee is to handle general jurisdiction over legislation affecting judicial proceedings dealing with civil practice and procedure. Its jurisdiction also includes civil liberties as well as governmental information and frequently will consider constitutional issues. Once the bill was filed with the senate clerk it went in for the first senate reading on February 1 of this year. Feb/20/2018 the Senate Committee found the bill to be favorably and was able to move to the second reading the next day. Feb/23/2018 -SB 375 had its third reading. While in the third reading of the bill the presiding officer calls the bill from the calendar for floor consideration. Immediately after third reading, a bill is ready for debate, amendment, and final voting on passage. The bill was able to pass the senate floor with 35 yays and 19 nays. Next SB 375 was moved to the house and had its first reading on Feb. 26 2018. The bill was still under the judiciary committee. The members of the house committee was Willard, Wendell as the

28, 2018. On March 29, 2018 SB 375 died in the house on March 29, 2018. In early March about 200 people gathered in from of Georgia State Capitol to rally against SB 375. This anti-LGBTQ adoption. Many people believed that Gov. Nathan Deal was not going to approve of this bill since 2016 another bill, HB 757, the anti-LGBTQ religious exemptions bill was veto. At the rally a transgender foster youth, Tylen, stood in front of the house telling her story. She said, “when I met my parents, who are a same-sex couple, they are the best fathers that I could ever ask for. Taking away the fact that they can be parents to me and my foster brother, that means you’re taking away the fact that they have the ability to connect with me in a way that the people in group homes couldn’t. My other foster parents couldn’t even understand me,” the youth claimed that her parents were denied placement 30 times — said at the rally. ( Saunders,