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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Nurses; continuing competency requirements as requirement for license renewal; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 26 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registered professional nurses, so as to provide for continuing competency requirements as a requirement for license renewal; to provide for inactive licenses; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2013_14"
+identifier: "HB 315"
+citation: "Georgia HB 315 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Sims", "Ed Rynders", "Margaret Kaiser", "Sharon Cooper", "Sheila Jones", "Valerie Clark"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-02-12"
+last_action: "2013-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5051bf54-cec6-4c82-a86a-3c05683cb01a"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "d8bf57d655a69aacbf9c9d62acd89731349c85c376e9f279ed1a945162169613"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
+---
+
+# Georgia HB 315 (2013_14) — Nurses; continuing competency requirements as requirement for license renewal; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 26 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registered professional nurses, so as to provide for continuing competency requirements as a requirement for license renewal; to provide for inactive licenses; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 315/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136283.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 4992/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130632.pdf)
+3. **SCSFA to HB 315** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135761.pdf)
+4. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 5169S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134470.pdf)
+5. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1342** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135657.pdf)
+6. **Sen floor amend 2 AM 33 1355** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/135752.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **172–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barbara Sims — primary (person)
+- Ed Rynders — primary (person)
+- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+- Sheila Jones — primary (person)
+- Valerie Clark — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-02-12** House Hopper
+- **2013-02-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2013-02-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2013-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-02-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2013-02-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2013-02-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2013-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-25** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2013-03-26** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2013-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2013-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2013-05-06** Act 266 `executive-signature`
+- **2013-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5051bf54-cec6-4c82-a86a-3c05683cb01a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+