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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospital Authorities and Designated Teaching Hospitals; definitions; revise"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-95 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to funding of medical education provided by hospital authorities and designated teaching hospitals, so as to revise definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2021_22"
+identifier: "SB 340"
+citation: "Georgia SB 340 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Michelle Au", "Mike Dugan"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-14"
+last_action: "2022-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b11d7e2-e86e-4b9d-bc11-c9acbad0d112"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "5412d59ab52ebcf30f465b6a763a108988de261a94b1ed1edb2081073e1aab1b"
+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 340 (2021_22) — Hospital Authorities and Designated Teaching Hospitals; definitions; revise
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-95 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to funding of medical education provided by hospital authorities and designated teaching hospitals, so as to revise definitions; 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 33 8844** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203417.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/206097.pdf)
+3. **Committee sub LC 33 8974S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/204694.pdf)
+4. **SB 340/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/210037.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
+- Michelle Au — primary (person)
+- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-14** Senate Hopper
+- **2022-01-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-02-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-10** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-10** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2022-02-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-15** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2022-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-06** Act 831 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b11d7e2-e86e-4b9d-bc11-c9acbad0d112`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+