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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Physicians and Health Care Practitioners for Rural Areas Assistance Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians for rural areas assistance, so as to expand the service cancelable loan program for physicians in underserved areas to other health care practitioners; 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 427"
+citation: "Georgia HB 427 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jason Spencer", "Mark Newton", "Matt Hatchett", "Sharon Cooper"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2017-02-17"
+last_action: "2017-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/386c374f-c35f-4a4d-9ff5-28bbfc4a6081"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "c41e64be4539b6c7d42269e643ced29c45f52f0da82324e18f29fba05b7582d2"
+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 427 (2017_18) — Physicians and Health Care Practitioners for Rural Areas Assistance Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians for rural areas assistance, so as to expand the service cancelable loan program for physicians in underserved areas to other health care practitioners; 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 — **167–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jason Spencer — primary (person)
+- Mark Newton — primary (person)
+- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-17** House Hopper
+- **2017-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-27** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2017-02-28** 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`
+- **2017-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-08** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-08** Act 176 `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/386c374f-c35f-4a4d-9ff5-28bbfc4a6081`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+