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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; create; provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health care facilities, so as to implement initiatives to improve quality and delivery of patient centered and family focused palliative care in this state; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to create the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; to establish a state-wide Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program; 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 509"
+citation: "Georgia HB 509 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bill Hitchens", "Chuck Williams", "Jan Tankersley", "Jesse Petrea", "Ron Stephens"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-26"
+last_action: "2016-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97f976c4-8d6e-4a79-8a77-2c0e8c1c9873"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "21b11d492778a8d9ef2926b6df0d4e9c4a117022233b31d72c08ddf1188c6204"
+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 509 (2015_16) — Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; create; provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health care facilities, so as to implement initiatives to improve quality and delivery of patient centered and family focused palliative care in this state; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to create the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; to establish a state-wide Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program; 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 509/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/161042.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 6046/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149490.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 6382S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/157118.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 6382S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/155739.pdf)
+5. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 2208S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159911.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **138–23** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
+- Chuck Williams — primary (person)
+- Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
+- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
+- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-26** House Hopper
+- **2015-03-02** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-03** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2016-01-27** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-02-10** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2016-02-10** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-02-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2016-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2016-03-14** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2016-03-14** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2016-03-16** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2016-03-28** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2016-04-26** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2016-04-26** Act 342 `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/97f976c4-8d6e-4a79-8a77-2c0e8c1c9873`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+