---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical assistance; Medicaid coverage for lactation care and services and postpartum care; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to provide for Medicaid coverage for lactation care and services and postpartum care; to provide for submission of a state plan amendment or waiver, if necessary; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 1114"
citation: "Georgia HB 1114 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butch Parrish", "Jan Jones", "Jon Burns", "Katie Dempsey", "Sharon Cooper", "Terry England"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-03-05"
last_action: "2020-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f94365cc-2aca-4fc3-869c-c6dacc995152"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "8890d30cda7abe73ce4c9a24871f7bcae4e0fe8dd9a7c1c78a7eafa943f01dae"
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 1114 (2019_20) — Medical assistance; Medicaid coverage for lactation care and services and postpartum care; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to provide for Medicaid coverage for lactation care and services and postpartum care; to provide for submission of a state plan amendment or waiver, if necessary; 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 1114/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194813.pdf)
2. **LC 33 8346/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192330.pdf)
3. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 8410S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193945.pdf)
4. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194233.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **162–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Butch Parrish — primary (person)
- Jan Jones — primary (person)
- Jon Burns — primary (person)
- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
- Terry England — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-05** House Hopper
- **2020-03-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-10** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-06-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-20** Senate Tabled
- **2020-06-22** Senate Taken from Table
- **2020-06-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-22** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2020-06-24** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2020-06-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-16** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-16** Act 473 `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-16** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f94365cc-2aca-4fc3-869c-c6dacc995152`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).