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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health; COVID-19 testing of staff members in long term-care facilities; repeal certain provisions"
+description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of hospitals and related institutions, so as to repeal certain provisions requiring COVID-19 testing of staff members in long term-care facilities; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
+legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
+session: "2025_26"
+identifier: "HB 645"
+citation: "Georgia HB 645 (2025_26)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HEALTH"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Corbett", "John LaHood", "Kasey Carpenter", "Noel Williams, Jr.", "Sharon Cooper"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2025-02-26"
+last_action: "2025-07-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23bc6bed-3e67-47be-9439-5f04cbc13950"
+source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
+source_hash: "82e6e8848a066e9eeae83faa9078b6ad3a8a4558e3fdc2baacdacbd99b20f87e"
+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 645 (2025_26) — Health; COVID-19 testing of staff members in long term-care facilities; repeal certain provisions
+
+A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of hospitals and related institutions, so as to repeal certain provisions requiring COVID-19 testing of staff members in long term-care facilities; 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 645/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/239324.pdf)
+2. **LC 46 1108/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/234031.pdf)
+3. **Sen Floor Amend 1 AM 52 0079** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/238725.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Vote #406 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **52–2** (pass) · upper
+- House Vote #259 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **123–49** (pass) · lower
+- House Vote #441 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **166–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Vote #405 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **50–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Corbett — primary (person)
+- John LaHood — primary (person)
+- Kasey Carpenter — primary (person)
+- Noel Williams, Jr. — primary (person)
+- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-26** House Hopper `introduction`
+- **2025-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-06** House Third Readers `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-06** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-02** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
+- **2025-04-10** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-14** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-14** Act 275 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23bc6bed-3e67-47be-9439-5f04cbc13950`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
+