---
type: "Bill"
title: "Violence Against Health Care Workers; create joint study committee"
description: "A RESOLUTION creating the Joint Study Committee on Violence Against Health Care Workers; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "SR 981"
citation: "Georgia SR 981 (2013_14)"
classification: ["resolution"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Don Balfour", "Earl Carter", "Fran Millar", "Judson Hill", "Renee Unterman", "Steve Henson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2014-02-19"
last_action: "2014-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/960cac70-3feb-41df-bb62-564acfa636c4"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f791e7e28df43e5e910100a313493676f771eebcc6cb142f228dfd5828e04b61"
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 SR 981 (2013_14) — Violence Against Health Care Workers; create joint study committee

A RESOLUTION creating the Joint Study Committee on Violence Against Health Care Workers; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Adopted Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141797.pdf)
2. **As introduced LC 37 1738** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140380.pdf)
3. **SR 981/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144913.pdf)

## Votes

- ADOPTION — **48–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Don Balfour — primary (person)
- Earl Carter — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Judson Hill — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
- Steve Henson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-19** Senate Hopper
- **2014-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-18** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-03-18** House Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2014-03-20** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2014-03-31** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-22** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-22** Act 601 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-22** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/960cac70-3feb-41df-bb62-564acfa636c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).