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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Community Health; conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; require"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to require the Department of Community Health to conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; to provide for input from the public, service providers, and other stakeholders; to provide for proposed rate models and estimated fiscal impact; 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 610"
+citation: "Georgia SB 610 (2021_22)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Gloria Butler", "Kim Jackson", "Larry Walker, III", "Mike Dugan", "Sally Harrell"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-03-04"
+last_action: "2022-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70b3b394-0b18-4806-8696-c4ffa58ef2bc"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "2b6643efac45f7d9c0177aae016721d13ce69ebf50a2b4bbafd45df77faa7d4c"
+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 610 (2021_22) — Department of Community Health; conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; require
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to require the Department of Community Health to conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; to provide for input from the public, service providers, and other stakeholders; to provide for proposed rate models and estimated fiscal impact; 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 9056** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/208417.pdf)
+2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/209556.pdf)
+3. **LC 33 9131S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/210044.pdf)
+4. **LC 33 9157S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/210901.pdf)
+5. **SB 610/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/212135.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **51–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ben Watson — primary (person)
+- Dean Burke — primary (person)
+- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
+- Kim Jackson — primary (person)
+- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
+- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
+- Sally Harrell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-03-04** Senate Hopper
+- **2022-03-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-11** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-15** Senate Tabled
+- **2022-03-15** Senate Taken from Table
+- **2022-03-15** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-15** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2022-03-16** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-17** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-23** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-25** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
+- **2022-03-29** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-01** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2022-04-01** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
+- **2022-04-04** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
+- **2022-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-09** Act 853 `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/70b3b394-0b18-4806-8696-c4ffa58ef2bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+