---
type: "Bill"
title: "Temporary Medical Consent Guardianship; Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; change certain signatures"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 29-4-18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions, requirements, and termination of temporary medical consent guardianship, so as to change certain signatures on a Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "SB 158"
citation: "Georgia SB 158 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gloria Butler", "Horacena Tate", "Jesse Stone", "Nan Orrock", "Renee Unterman", "Steve Henson", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-12"
last_action: "2013-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad16db49-cbae-47be-9b4d-197f607ab6ce"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "40507df4f037134a81c9d56fb6671b2dbb19c67b426a8883bbf6084377ac2d87"
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 158 (2013_14) — Temporary Medical Consent Guardianship; Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; change certain signatures

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 29-4-18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions, requirements, and termination of temporary medical consent guardianship, so as to change certain signatures on a Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; 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 37 1537** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/130630.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133989.pdf)
3. **LC 37 1613S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/134661.pdf)
4. **SB 158/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/137178.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Horacena Tate — primary (person)
- Jesse Stone — primary (person)
- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-12** Senate Hopper
- **2013-02-13** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2013-03-07** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2013-03-07** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2013-03-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-03-12** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2013-03-14** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2013-03-22** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2013-03-22** House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
- **2013-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2013-04-04** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-06** Act 218 `executive-signature`
- **2013-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad16db49-cbae-47be-9b4d-197f607ab6ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).