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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Board of Veterinary Medicine; professional health program for impaired veterinarians; provide"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; 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: "SB 75"
+citation: "Georgia SB 75 (2019_20)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "John Wilkinson", "Lee Anderson", "Sheikh Rahman", "Tyler Harper", "Zahra Karinshak"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/637ed13a-dc9b-4ca5-b489-aaf4b7c5078c"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "e41b1e6e0f7a8d46da00da4e480f763c8f7715f75cb0131cbd94cf884e51c6a5"
+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 75 (2019_20) — State Board of Veterinary Medicine; professional health program for impaired veterinarians; provide
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; 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. **As Introduced LC 44 1046** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180704.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182142.pdf)
+3. **Committee sub LC 44 1092S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181575.pdf)
+4. **LC 44 1255S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185170.pdf)
+5. **SB75/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186746.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **54–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Ellis Black — primary (person)
+- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
+- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
+- Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
+- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
+- Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-07** Senate Hopper
+- **2019-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-20** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-22** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2019-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2019-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-05-10** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-05-10** Veto V9 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/637ed13a-dc9b-4ca5-b489-aaf4b7c5078c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+