---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professions and businesses; chiropractors may own professional corporations with physicians; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 14-7-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional services in which a professional corporation may engage, so as to provide that chiropractors may own professional corporations with physicians; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 119"
citation: "Georgia HB 119 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonnie Rich", "Ginny Ehrhart", "Lee Hawkins", "Philip Singleton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d719464-016d-4ed8-8ce3-f86b19658f3d"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "67917fef5553886303972674874b3d900aa8ac2549aaf5bd0f8e6476e817de86"
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 119 (2021_22) — Professions and businesses; chiropractors may own professional corporations with physicians; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 14-7-4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional services in which a professional corporation may engage, so as to provide that chiropractors may own professional corporations with physicians; 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 119/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/201137.pdf)
2. **LC 33 8510/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/195967.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **163–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bonnie Rich — primary (person)
- Ginny Ehrhart — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Philip Singleton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26** House Hopper
- **2021-01-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-23** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-02-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-22** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-29** Act 34 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d719464-016d-4ed8-8ce3-f86b19658f3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).