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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medical practice; maintenance of certification shall not be required; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical practice, so as to provide that maintenance of certification shall not be required as a condition of licensure to practice medicine, staff privileges, employment in certain facilities, reimbursement, or malpractice insurance coverage; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "HB 165"
+citation: "Georgia HB 165 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Betty Price", "Deborah Silcox", "Jodi Lott", "Mark Newton", "Rick Jasperse", "Sharon Cooper"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-01-26"
+last_action: "2017-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/409f8ca2-12b1-459b-9c78-536955e6b9fe"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "aa1c720d5d4782a3d1570eb07cf53568d62325d7ca5f4e9fee50bca2d73da202"
+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 165 (2017_18) — Medical practice; maintenance of certification shall not be required; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical practice, so as to provide that maintenance of certification shall not be required as a condition of licensure to practice medicine, staff privileges, employment in certain facilities, reimbursement, or malpractice insurance coverage; to provide for definitions; 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.
+
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **171–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Betty Price — primary (person)
+- Deborah Silcox — primary (person)
+- Jodi Lott — primary (person)
+- Mark Newton — primary (person)
+- Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-26** House Hopper
+- **2017-01-30** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-31** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-01** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-03-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-20** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2017-03-28** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2017-04-03** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-08** Act 180 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/409f8ca2-12b1-459b-9c78-536955e6b9fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+