---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital Authorities and Designated Teaching Hospitals; definitions; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-95 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to funding of medical education provided by hospital authorities and designated teaching hospitals, so as to revise definitions; 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: "SB 340"
citation: "Georgia SB 340 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Dean Burke", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Michelle Au", "Mike Dugan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-14"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b11d7e2-e86e-4b9d-bc11-c9acbad0d112"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5412d59ab52ebcf30f465b6a763a108988de261a94b1ed1edb2081073e1aab1b"
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 340 (2021_22) — Hospital Authorities and Designated Teaching Hospitals; definitions; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-95 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to funding of medical education provided by hospital authorities and designated teaching hospitals, so as to revise definitions; 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 33 8844** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203417.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/206097.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 33 8974S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/204694.pdf)
4. **SB 340/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/210037.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Michelle Au — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-14** Senate Hopper
- **2022-01-24** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-03** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2022-02-11** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2022-03-15** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-22** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2022-03-22** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-06** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-06** Act 831 `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-01** Effective Date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b11d7e2-e86e-4b9d-bc11-c9acbad0d112`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).