republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/hb-315.md

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Bill	Nurses; continuing competency requirements as requirement for license renewal; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 26 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registered professional nurses, so as to provide for continuing competency requirements as a requirement for license renewal; to provide for inactive licenses; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	HB 315	Georgia HB 315 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Barbara Sims Ed Rynders Margaret Kaiser Sharon Cooper Sheila Jones Valerie Clark	6	16	1	2013-02-12	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5051bf54-cec6-4c82-a86a-3c05683cb01a	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d8bf57d655a69aacbf9c9d62acd89731349c85c376e9f279ed1a945162169613	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 315 (2013_14) — Nurses; continuing competency requirements as requirement for license renewal; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 26 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registered professional nurses, so as to provide for continuing competency requirements as a requirement for license renewal; to provide for inactive 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 315/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 4992/a (committee substitute) — source
3. SCSFA to HB 315 (committee substitute) — source
4. Sen ctee sub LC 33 5169S (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1342 (committee substitute) — source
6. Sen floor amend 2 AM 33 1355 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 172–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara Sims — primary (person)
• Ed Rynders — primary (person)
• Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
• Sheila Jones — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-12 House Hopper
• 2013-02-13 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-02-14 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-27 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-25 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-25 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-26 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 266 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5051bf54-cec6-4c82-a86a-3c05683cb01a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).