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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health; clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to health, so as to clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms; to provide alternate terminology for do not resuscitate orders; to amend other Code sections of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated for purposes of conformity; 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: "SB 109"
+citation: "Georgia SB 109 (2015_16)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nan Orrock", "Renee Unterman"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2015-02-12"
+last_action: "2015-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1894943f-080c-49d5-86ef-d10ed4a5c0f4"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "7e791b82d83e9c0d9fb89eb3c612453cce6cc9325004885b15885441351a9bdf"
+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 109 (2015_16) — Health; clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to health, so as to clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms; to provide alternate terminology for do not resuscitate orders; to amend other Code sections of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated for purposes of conformity; 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 33 5887** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/147830.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151316.pdf)
+3. **Committee sub LC 33 6092S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149911.pdf)
+4. **Floor amend 1 AM 33 1539** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151235.pdf)
+5. **LC 33 6170S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152075.pdf)
+6. **Sb 109/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/154019.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
+- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-12** Senate Hopper
+- **2015-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-04** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-05** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-13** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2015-03-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-19** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2015-03-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2015-03-31** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2015-03-31** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2015-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2015-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2015-05-05** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2015-05-05** Act 55 `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1894943f-080c-49d5-86ef-d10ed4a5c0f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+