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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Georgia Occupational Therapy Practice Act; enact"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to update and revise various provisions relating to occupational therapists; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2019_20"
+identifier: "HB 253"
+citation: "Georgia HB 253 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bill Werkheiser", "John LaHood", "Karen Bennett", "Karen Mathiak", "Lee Hawkins"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-11"
+last_action: "2019-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6202bf53-5c7e-493c-b6e8-a43625181d3f"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "705de100cf56c2e17a328fbebec7fec402ac77dac76199b575f1d6453b4b3f00"
+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 253 (2019_20) — Georgia Occupational Therapy Practice Act; enact
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to update and revise various provisions relating to occupational therapists; 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 253/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186292.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 7651/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181056.pdf)
+3. **LC 36 3863S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183737.pdf)
+4. **LC 36 3863S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183011.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **158–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bill Werkheiser — primary (person)
+- John LaHood — primary (person)
+- Karen Bennett — primary (person)
+- Karen Mathiak — primary (person)
+- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-11** House Hopper
+- **2019-02-12** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-13** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-27** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-07** Act 246 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6202bf53-5c7e-493c-b6e8-a43625181d3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+