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Bill	Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to physicians, acupuncture, physician assistants, cancer and glaucoma treatment, respiratory care, clinical perfusionists, and orthotics and prosthetics practice, so as to provide for additional powers of the Georgia Composite Medical Board relating to pain management; to enact the "Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act"; to require the licensure of pain management clinics; to provide for requirements for licensure; to provide for denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 178	Georgia HB 178 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Butch Parrish Mary Oliver Mickey Channell Sharon Cooper Tom Taylor Tom Weldon	6	15	1	2013-01-31	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/425f74c0-0457-4ef7-b1bc-5238869fdd1a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4fec2006877d129336b0970c901714e79d4425b30ee774e43286387e302cc721	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 178 (2013_14) — Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to physicians, acupuncture, physician assistants, cancer and glaucoma treatment, respiratory care, clinical perfusionists, and orthotics and prosthetics practice, so as to provide for additional powers of the Georgia Composite Medical Board relating to pain management; to enact the "Georgia Pain Management Clinic Act"; to require the licensure of pain management clinics; to provide for requirements for licensure; to provide for denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses; 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 178/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 4935/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 5035S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5035S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 2 AM 33 1341 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 150–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Mary Oliver — primary (person)
• Mickey Channell — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
• Tom Taylor — primary (person)
• Tom Weldon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-31 House Hopper
• 2013-02-01 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-12 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-20 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-02-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-21 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-21 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-02 Act 128 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/425f74c0-0457-4ef7-b1bc-5238869fdd1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).