---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Health, Department of; Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); establish and implement"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to services for the aging, so as create a new adult day center licensure exclusion; to authorize the Department of Community Health to establish and implement the Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as part of the state's medical assistance program; to provide for definitions; to exempt PACE organizations from the requirement to obtain a certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "HB 1078"
citation: "Georgia HB 1078 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale Washburn", "Jesse Petrea", "John LaHood", "Lee Hawkins", "Mark Newton", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7764469-f9f1-4fce-bab6-7d8eb26d2d0d"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "55320cf66571fe8f7aca20dd6a6689f0a063c997f09d00f7283488eacc475155"
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 1078 (2023_24) — Community Health, Department of; Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); establish and implement

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 6 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to services for the aging, so as create a new adult day center licensure exclusion; to authorize the Department of Community Health to establish and implement the Georgia Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) as part of the state's medical assistance program; to provide for definitions; to exempt PACE organizations from the requirement to obtain a certificate of authority as a health maintenance organization; 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 1078/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/226755.pdf)
2. **LC 54 0327/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/222437.pdf)

## Votes

- House Vote #549 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **165–1** (pass) · lower
- Senate Vote #636 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dale Washburn — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- John LaHood — primary (person)
- Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
- Mark Newton — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-30** House Hopper `introduction`
- **2024-01-31** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-08** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2024-04-01** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-22** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Act 405 `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7764469-f9f1-4fce-bab6-7d8eb26d2d0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).