---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pain Management Clinics; health care professionals who must be on-site; revise a provision"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-283 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licensure requirements for pain management clinics, so as to revise a provision relating to the health care professionals who must be on-site at a pain management clinic in order for the clinic to provide medical treatment or services; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 106"
citation: "Georgia SB 106 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce Thompson", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Fran Millar", "Gloria Butler", "Greg Kirk", "Lester Jackson", "Matt Brass", "Nan Orrock", "Renee Unterman", "Steve Henson", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36ed3090-fee5-42bf-9716-83be24f74878"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "ee1610d3d2bf34fa30565a7c7a04f88f8915a39635b0f86bdae3ee04ce1230fc"
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 106 (2017_18) — Pain Management Clinics; health care professionals who must be on-site; revise a provision

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-283 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to licensure requirements for pain management clinics, so as to revise a provision relating to the health care professionals who must be on-site at a pain management clinic in order for the clinic to provide medical treatment or services; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **49–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Fran Millar — primary (person)
- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Matt Brass — 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.

- **2017-02-01** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-16** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-22** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-04** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 237 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36ed3090-fee5-42bf-9716-83be24f74878`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).