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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Temporary Medical Consent Guardianship; Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; change certain signatures"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 29-4-18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions, requirements, and termination of temporary medical consent guardianship, so as to change certain signatures on a Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; 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: "SB 158"
+citation: "Georgia SB 158 (2013_14)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gloria Butler", "Horacena Tate", "Jesse Stone", "Nan Orrock", "Renee Unterman", "Steve Henson", "William Ligon, Jr."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2013-02-12"
+last_action: "2013-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad16db49-cbae-47be-9b4d-197f607ab6ce"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "40507df4f037134a81c9d56fb6671b2dbb19c67b426a8883bbf6084377ac2d87"
+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 SB 158 (2013_14) — Temporary Medical Consent Guardianship; Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; change certain signatures
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 29-4-18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions, requirements, and termination of temporary medical consent guardianship, so as to change certain signatures on a Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; 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. **As introduced LC 37 1537** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130630.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133989.pdf)
+3. **LC 37 1613S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134661.pdf)
+4. **SB 158/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137178.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
+- Horacena Tate — primary (person)
+- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
+- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+- Steve Henson — primary (person)
+- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-02-12** Senate Hopper
+- **2013-02-13** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2013-02-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-02-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-07** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-07** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2013-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2013-03-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2013-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2013-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2013-03-22** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2013-03-22** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
+- **2013-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2013-04-04** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2013-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2013-05-06** Act 218 `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/ad16db49-cbae-47be-9b4d-197f607ab6ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+