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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Nursing homes; violation of certain regulations shall not constitute negligence per se; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-3.2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the notice of cited deficiencies and imposition of sanctions for nursing homes or intermediate care homes, so as to provide that a violation of certain regulations shall not constitute negligence per se; to provide for limitations on advertisements that use or reference the results of federal or state surveys or inspections of nursing homes; 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 342"
+citation: "Georgia HB 342 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barry Fleming", "Matt Ramsey", "Ronnie Mabra", "Tommy Benton", "Trey Kelley", "Wendell Willard"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-12"
+last_action: "2015-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/840585fa-0431-4c95-9af1-a7aa224f0cfb"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "09c2e67100b6ca2df0af2255d263dfc6db7ab1fee708c0fb0946d204bd45707d"
+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 342 (2015_16) — Nursing homes; violation of certain regulations shall not constitute negligence per se; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-3.2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the notice of cited deficiencies and imposition of sanctions for nursing homes or intermediate care homes, so as to provide that a violation of certain regulations shall not constitute negligence per se; to provide for limitations on advertisements that use or reference the results of federal or state surveys or inspections of nursing homes; 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 342/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153559.pdf)
+2. **LC 29 6545S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151100.pdf)
+3. **LC 29 6545S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/150471.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 5925/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147883.pdf)
+5. **SCSFA to HB 342** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152827.pdf)
+6. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 2012S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152298.pdf)
+7. **Sen floor am 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152777.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **173–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barry Fleming — primary (person)
+- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
+- Ronnie Mabra — primary (person)
+- Tommy Benton — primary (person)
+- Trey Kelley — primary (person)
+- Wendell Willard — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-12** House Hopper
+- **2015-02-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-18** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-13** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-13** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2015-03-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-27** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2015-03-31** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-12** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-12** Act 203 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-12** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/840585fa-0431-4c95-9af1-a7aa224f0cfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+