---
type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Telehealth Act; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to revise the \"Georgia Telehealth Act\"; to revise definitions; to authorize health care providers to provide telemedicine services from home; to authorize patients to receive telemedicine services from their home, workplace, or school; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 307"
citation: "Georgia HB 307 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beth Moore", "Houston Gaines", "Jodi Lott", "Matt Hatchett", "Sharon Cooper", "Spencer Frye"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26b5beb6-a5ce-4f0a-9903-9e2a8f8269df"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "2bf389f95bc4b9179946a155278168bbd4ea8651dab074476f9cd73a3306fc9c"
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 307 (2021_22) — Georgia Telehealth Act; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 24 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to insurance generally, so as to revise the "Georgia Telehealth Act"; to revise definitions; to authorize health care providers to provide telemedicine services from home; to authorize patients to receive telemedicine services from their home, workplace, or school; to provide for related matters; to provide for 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 307/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/202457.pdf)
2. **LC 33 8544/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/196858.pdf)
3. **LC 33 8632S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/198327.pdf)
4. **LC 33 8632S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197809.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 8760S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200706.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **158–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beth Moore — primary (person)
- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
- Jodi Lott — primary (person)
- Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
- Spencer Frye — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-04** House Hopper
- **2021-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-02-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-29** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-03-31** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2021-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-04** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Act 188 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26b5beb6-a5ce-4f0a-9903-9e2a8f8269df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).