---
type: "Bill"
title: "'Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act'; enactment"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency management, so as to provide for the enactment of the \"Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act\"; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "SB 230"
citation: "Georgia SB 230 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-03-20"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79508665-18eb-41ed-9d02-f1de147dd1e3"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "bfaf766aa3f2d731dfd6208d4288ee64fcf108cda059a3636b7a972ddf9e8b89"
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 SB 230 (2015_16) — 'Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act'; enactment

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency management, so as to provide for the enactment of the "Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act"; 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. **As introduced LC 36 2795** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151772.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156571.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 37 2104S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/156143.pdf)
4. **SB 230/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162071.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **52–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-03-20** Senate Hopper
- **2015-03-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-02-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2016-02-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2016-02-04** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2016-02-08** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2016-02-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2016-03-11** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2016-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2016-03-30** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2016-04-26** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2016-04-26** Act 403 `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79508665-18eb-41ed-9d02-f1de147dd1e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).