republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-208.md

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Bill	Nursing homes; annually offer influenza vaccinations to health care workers and other employees; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of hospitals and related institutions, so as to require nursing homes to annually offer influenza vaccinations to its health care workers and other employees; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 208	Georgia HB 208 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Amy Carter B.J. Pak Ben Watson Edward Lindsey Lee Hawkins Sharon Cooper	4	15	1	2013-02-05	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/12c31d8b-0edb-4fad-8f90-2ba6c9a39872	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	c80dbef7eb8be131c7f6387b526fc431ec5f3ed88797466dcc42d9c0184ab074	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 208 (2013_14) — Nursing homes; annually offer influenza vaccinations to health care workers and other employees; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of hospitals and related institutions, so as to require nursing homes to annually offer influenza vaccinations to its health care workers and other employees; 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 208/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 208/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 4960/a (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 5027S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 118–40 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Amy Carter — primary (person)
• B.J. Pak — primary (person)
• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-05 House Hopper
• 2013-02-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-07 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
• 2013-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 255 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/12c31d8b-0edb-4fad-8f90-2ba6c9a39872. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).