---
type: "Bill"
title: "Death Investigations; medical examiner's inquiry is required to be conducted; clarify"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to death investigations, so as to clarify when a medical examiner's inquiry is required to be conducted; 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 327"
citation: "Georgia SB 327 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Albers", "Tyler Harper"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e93d90a7-0bb0-47f4-9cf5-976b4b62ef6f"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "96e969acaa486730dddbfb77cc69bcfec07a28bb5669df07ef834702447ecd15"
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 327 (2017_18) — Death Investigations; medical examiner's inquiry is required to be conducted; clarify

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to death investigations, so as to clarify when a medical examiner's inquiry is required to be conducted; 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 AS AMENDED — **55–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Albers — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Senate Hopper
- **2018-01-18** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-24** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-01-25** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2018-01-29** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-01-30** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-12** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-21** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-21** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 351 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e93d90a7-0bb0-47f4-9cf5-976b4b62ef6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).