---
type: "Bill"
title: "Delegation of Authority to Physician Assistants; higher supervisory ratio; completed a board approve anesthesiologist assistant program; authorize"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-103 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to delegation of authority to physician assistants, so as to authorize a higher supervisory ratio for physician assistants who have completed a board approved anesthesiologist assistant program; 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 364"
citation: "Georgia SB 364 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Nan Orrock", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2be25610-f774-457b-8169-163464d272cd"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e57c793c196d78277617279bd0d3686a40ea3872856bd99b32683e7f4a58767c"
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 364 (2017_18) — Delegation of Authority to Physician Assistants; higher supervisory ratio; completed a board approve anesthesiologist assistant program; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-103 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to delegation of authority to physician assistants, so as to authorize a higher supervisory ratio for physician assistants who have completed a board approved anesthesiologist assistant program; 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 — **51–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Nan Orrock — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** Senate Hopper
- **2018-01-30** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-21** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-02-22** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-23** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-27** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 354 `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/2be25610-f774-457b-8169-163464d272cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).