HB 229 amends Title 19 of the O.C.G.A. relating to domestic relations, so as to expand the current rights of grandparents to visitation and intervention to great-grandparents and siblings of parents. Title 19 of the O.C.G.A is amended by revising Code Section 19-7-3 relating to grandparent visitation rights and intervention to remove the term grandparent and to replace the term with the word "family member" to mean grandparent, great-grandparent or sibling. HB 229 provides for detailed definitions for ‘grandparent,’ ‘great-parent,’ and ‘sibling.’ HB 229 allows for the family member as defined in Code Section 19-7-3 to have the right to file an original action for visitation rights to a minor child or to or to intervene in and seek to obtain visitation rights in any action in which any court in this state shall have before it any question concerning the custody of a minor child, a divorce of the parents or a parent of such minor child, a termination of the parental rights of either parent of such minor child, or visitation rights concerning such minor child or whenever there has been an  adoption in which the adopted child has been adopted by the child's  blood relative or by a stepparent, notwithstanding the provisions of  Code Section 19-8-19. Upon the filing of an original action or upon intervention in an existing proceeding under subsection (b) of Code section 19-7-3, the court may grant any family member of the child reasonable visitation rights if the court finds the health or welfare of the child would be harmed unless such visitation is granted and if the best interests of the child would be served by such visitation.