---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health; certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; repeal statute"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county boards of health, so as to repeal a statute relating to the option for certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; to provide for an effective date; to provide for transition to county boards of health; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 885"
citation: "Georgia HB 885 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Beskin", "Betty Price", "Brad Raffensperger", "Jan Jones", "Joe Wilkinson", "Wendell Willard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-02-02"
last_action: "2016-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c633d6dd-2304-4f4e-9823-ae3fc7223567"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "b53cb1578b756ecbd8b989ff43ec83b29daa8996b8bea5b88e1bcef4e70b344b"
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 885 (2015_16) — Health; certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; repeal statute

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county boards of health, so as to repeal a statute relating to the option for certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; to provide for an effective date; to provide for transition to county boards of health; 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 885/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162254.pdf)
2. **LC 33 6315/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156155.pdf)
3. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 6577S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159445.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **151–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Beskin — primary (person)
- Betty Price — primary (person)
- Brad Raffensperger — primary (person)
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Wendell Willard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-02** House Hopper
- **2016-02-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-02-10** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-02-16** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-03-22** Senate Tabled
- **2016-03-24** Senate Taken from Table
- **2016-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-03-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2016-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-27** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-27** Act 467 `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-27** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c633d6dd-2304-4f4e-9823-ae3fc7223567`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).