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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "\"Georgia Right to Try Act\"; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to enact the \"Georgia Right to Try Act\"; to provide for investigational drugs, biological products, and devices for patients with advanced illnesses; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for definitions; to provide for eligibility criteria; to provide for written informed consent; to allow manufacturers to make such drugs available; to provide that health benefit coverage is not mandatory; to prohibit sanctions against a physician's license; to prohibit blocking access; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2015_16"
+identifier: "HB 34"
+citation: "Georgia HB 34 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Spencer", "Margaret Kaiser", "Micah Gravley", "Mike Dudgeon", "Sam Teasley", "Scot Turner"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-01-05"
+last_action: "2016-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83dd40f9-4017-4f37-b637-9f28669b953c"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "0556a442fadf074acc6ab5a6cabf363d175cb4c67cdc2ed814e5d7796203f37b"
+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 34 (2015_16) — "Georgia Right to Try Act"; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to enact the "Georgia Right to Try Act"; to provide for investigational drugs, biological products, and devices for patients with advanced illnesses; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for definitions; to provide for eligibility criteria; to provide for written informed consent; to allow manufacturers to make such drugs available; to provide that health benefit coverage is not mandatory; to prohibit sanctions against a physician's license; to prohibit blocking access; to provide for statutory construction; 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 34/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/160399.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 5678/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145559.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 5678/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145231.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 6084S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149742.pdf)
+5. **LC 33 6420S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157583.pdf)
+6. **LC 33 6420S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156302.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **173–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Spencer — primary (person)
+- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Micah Gravley — primary (person)
+- Mike Dudgeon — primary (person)
+- Sam Teasley — primary (person)
+- Scot Turner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-01-05** House Prefiled `introduction`
+- **2015-01-15** House Hopper
+- **2015-01-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-01-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-03** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-04-02** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
+- **2016-02-03** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-16** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-08** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-11** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-11** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2016-03-28** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-26** Act 422 `executive-signature`
+- **2016-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83dd40f9-4017-4f37-b637-9f28669b953c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+