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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health; additional measures for the protection of elderly persons; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health, so as to provide additional measures for the protection of elderly persons; to increase the maximum fines for violation by health care facilities; to provide for staffing, training, and financial stability requirements for certain personal care homes and assisted living communities; to provide for limited nursing services in assisted living communities; to provide for certification of memory care centers; to provide for definitions; to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide for definitions; to rename the State Board of Nursing Home Administrators the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators; 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 987"
+citation: "Georgia HB 987 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Efstration", "Jan Jones", "Jesse Petrea", "John LaHood", "Mary Oliver", "Sharon Cooper"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-02-21"
+last_action: "2020-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36c4e6a5-580b-4235-85d2-59fda90b245f"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "48ef8c52d40e8285f686af9bdf037c3d56dcca7bf07a3aef8512883371bb29be"
+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 987 (2019_20) — Health; additional measures for the protection of elderly persons; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health, so as to provide additional measures for the protection of elderly persons; to increase the maximum fines for violation by health care facilities; to provide for staffing, training, and financial stability requirements for certain personal care homes and assisted living communities; to provide for limited nursing services in assisted living communities; to provide for certification of memory care centers; to provide for definitions; to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to provide for definitions; to rename the State Board of Nursing Home Administrators the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators; 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 987/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194812.pdf)
+2. **LC 33 8282/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190624.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 8311S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191527.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 8311S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191060.pdf)
+5. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 8409S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193751.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **160–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chuck Efstration — primary (person)
+- Jan Jones — primary (person)
+- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
+- John LaHood — primary (person)
+- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-21** House Hopper
+- **2020-02-24** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-25** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2020-06-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-06-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2020-06-19** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2020-06-19** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2020-06-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2020-06-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-06-30** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-30** Act 403 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-06-30** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36c4e6a5-580b-4235-85d2-59fda90b245f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+