Bill
SR 342
Creates a temporary Senate study committee to examine addiction recovery supports, focusing on Certified Peer Specialists and protocols for responders, training, and collaboration.
Status: Resolution Adopted
Introduced: March 26, 2025
Primary Sponsor: Sen. Brian Strickland
Classification: Senate resolution
Note: The source text supplied appears to contain two distinct resolutions that share the SR 342 identifier: (A) a Georgia Senate resolution creating a study committee on Certified Peer Specialists, Addiction Recovery Programs, and Protocols; and (B) an Illinois memorial resolution mourning the death of Thomas Owen “Tom” Kuhl. Both texts are summarized below.
Purpose
- Establish a temporary Senate study committee to examine substance use disorder and addiction recovery supports, with a particular focus on the role of state Certified Peer Specialists and on protocols for healthcare providers, law enforcement, education, faith and business leaders, and local governments.
Key provisions
- Creates the "Senate Study Committee on Certified Peer Specialists, Addiction Recovery Programs, and Protocols."
- Membership: six state senators, appointed by the President of the Senate; the President designates the chair.
- Duties: study conditions, needs, issues, and problems related to addiction and recovery supports and recommend actions or legislation as appropriate.
- Meetings: called by the chair and may be held at times/places necessary to fulfill its charge.
- Allowances/funding: legislative members receive allowances under O.C.G.A. §28‑1‑8; allowances limited to five days unless additional days are authorized; committee expenses come from Senate-appropriated funds.
- Reporting: the chair must file any approved reports or recommendations (including proposed legislation) before the committee’s abolishment; if no report is approved, minutes may be filed instead.
- Sunset: the committee is abolished on December 1, 2025.
Who is affected / potential impact
- Primarily advisory: impacts policymakers and stakeholders by producing findings and potential legislative recommendations. Aimed at improving coordination of peer-led recovery supports for individuals with substance use disorders — including incarcerated or formerly incarcerated persons — and enhancing training/protocols for first responders, healthcare, education, faith-based, and business communities. Any regulatory or funding changes would require subsequent legislative action.
Purpose & content
- A separate memorial resolution expressing sorrow at the death of Thomas Owen “Tom” Kuhl (d. March 16, 2025) and extending condolences to his family.
- Recites biographical information: birth (May 5, 1944), education, military service (U.S. Army, including Vietnam), employment history, civic and veterans’ activities (e.g., Lincoln Land Honor Flight, election judge, Knights of Columbus), family survivors, and interests.
- Directs that a suitable copy be presented to his family.
Procedural / timeline notes
- Legislative actions in the provided record indicate reading, referral, and final adoption in March–May 2025; the resolution is recorded as adopted and reported enrolled. Because the study-committee text is procedural and the memorial is honorific, neither by itself creates statutory law; the committee may propose legislation if its report recommends it.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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