---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact\" (\"REPLICA\"); provide for the enactment"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the O.C.G.A., relating to emergency management, so as to provide for the enactment of the \"Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact\" (\"REPLICA\"); to establish the Interstate Commission for EMS Personnel Practice; to provide for a coordinated database; to provide for rulemaking; to provide for oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement; to provide for contingent effectiveness of the compact; to provide for construction and severability; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 109"
citation: "Georgia SB 109 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butch Miller", "David Shafer", "Hunter Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers", "Michael Williams", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/920531e3-e05e-4378-bb4d-349b4b3087f5"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "d797783e47bb762ef297a64ba5c2f031792c203a795da0d23d77fefd1fbb99ca"
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 109 (2017_18) — "Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact" ("REPLICA"); provide for the enactment

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the O.C.G.A., relating to emergency management, so as to provide for the enactment of the "Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact" ("REPLICA"); to establish the Interstate Commission for EMS Personnel Practice; to provide for a coordinated database; to provide for rulemaking; to provide for oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement; to provide for contingent effectiveness of the compact; to provide for construction and severability; 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.


## Votes

- PASSAGE — **54–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- David Shafer — primary (person)
- Hunter Hill — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- Michael Williams — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — 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`
- **2017-02-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-16** House Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-06** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-08** Act 175 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/920531e3-e05e-4378-bb4d-349b4b3087f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).