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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Community Health, Department of; Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); establish and implement"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to services for the aging, so as create a new adult day center licensure exclusion; to authorize the Department of Community Health to establish and implement the Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as part of the state's medical assistance program; to provide for definitions; to exempt PACE organizations from the requirement to obtain a certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2023_24"
+identifier: "HB 1078"
+citation: "Georgia HB 1078 (2023_24)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dale Washburn", "Jesse Petrea", "John LaHood", "Lee Hawkins", "Mark Newton", "Sharon Cooper"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-30"
+last_action: "2024-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7764469-f9f1-4fce-bab6-7d8eb26d2d0d"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "55320cf66571fe8f7aca20dd6a6689f0a063c997f09d00f7283488eacc475155"
+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 1078 (2023_24) — Community Health, Department of; Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); establish and implement
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to services for the aging, so as create a new adult day center licensure exclusion; to authorize the Department of Community Health to establish and implement the Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as part of the state's medical assistance program; to provide for definitions; to exempt PACE organizations from the requirement to obtain a certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization; 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 1078/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/226755.pdf)
+2. **LC 54 0327/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/222437.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Vote #549 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **165–1** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #636 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **49–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dale Washburn — primary (person)
+- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
+- John LaHood — primary (person)
+- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
+- Mark Newton — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-30** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2024-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-13** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-08** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2024-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-22** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-22** Act 405 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7764469-f9f1-4fce-bab6-7d8eb26d2d0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+