---
type: "Bill"
title: "Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to persons and their rights; to amend Article 5 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to abortion; to amend Chapter 9A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the \"Woman's Right to Know Act;\" to amend Chapter 9B of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to physician's obligation in performance of abortions; to amend Chapter 7 of Title 19 of the O.C.G.A., relating to parent and child relationship generally; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 481"
citation: "Georgia HB 481 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Darlene Taylor", "Ed Setzler", "Ginny Ehrhart", "Jodi Lott", "Josh Bonner", "Micah Gravley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2020-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ccf89a49-d133-43ac-9b9a-4a4f06670561"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "68a386adffd9fbf56117e899b38c6e3bbde29af32e18c081c7c67263587e5d27"
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 481 (2019_20) — Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 1 of the O.C.G.A., relating to persons and their rights; to amend Article 5 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to abortion; to amend Chapter 9A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the "Woman's Right to Know Act;" to amend Chapter 9B of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to physician's obligation in performance of abortions; to amend Chapter 7 of Title 19 of the O.C.G.A., relating to parent and child relationship generally; to provide an effective date; 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 481/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187013.pdf)
2. **LC 28 9178ER/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182762.pdf)
3. **LC 33 7912ERS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184245.pdf)
4. **LC 33 7912ERS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183985.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 28 9335S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/184812.pdf)

## Votes

- TABLE — **70–96** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Darlene Taylor — primary (person)
- Ed Setzler — primary (person)
- Ginny Ehrhart — primary (person)
- Jodi Lott — primary (person)
- Josh Bonner — primary (person)
- Micah Gravley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-25** House Hopper
- **2019-02-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-21** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-22** Senate Engrossed `passage`
- **2019-03-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-29** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-04** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** Act 234 `executive-signature`
- **2020-01-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ccf89a49-d133-43ac-9b9a-4a4f06670561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).