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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Optometrists guidance and consultation by the Department of Public Health; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-30-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to optometrists, so as to provide for guidance and consultation by the Department of Public Health on certain training programs approved by the State Board of Optometry for doctors of optometry who administer pharmaceutical agents by injection; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2017_18"
+identifier: "SB 382"
+citation: "Georgia SB 382 (2017_18)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Strickland", "Butch Miller", "Gloria Butler", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "John Kennedy", "Lawrence Walker III", "P. K. Martin IV"]
+version_count: 0
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-02-01"
+last_action: "2018-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44248a08-25e6-4a35-852a-9a0d062b5d98"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "810bd5e4bbd635288398af6f0e389ee7dcb43b7ce0bdacdbf9b69e5987bb1462"
+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 382 (2017_18) — Optometrists guidance and consultation by the Department of Public Health; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-30-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to optometrists, so as to provide for guidance and consultation by the Department of Public Health on certain training programs approved by the State Board of Optometry for doctors of optometry who administer pharmaceutical agents by injection; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 BY SUBSTITUTE — **50–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Strickland — primary (person)
+- Butch Miller — primary (person)
+- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
+- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
+- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
+- John Kennedy — primary (person)
+- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
+- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-01** Senate Hopper
+- **2018-02-05** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-28** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-28** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2018-03-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-14** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-14** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-05-03** Act 357 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44248a08-25e6-4a35-852a-9a0d062b5d98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+