republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-158.md

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Bill	Temporary Medical Consent Guardianship; Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; change certain signatures	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 29-4-18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions, requirements, and termination of temporary medical consent guardianship, so as to change certain signatures on a Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 158	Georgia SB 158 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Gloria Butler Horacena Tate Jesse Stone Nan Orrock Renee Unterman Steve Henson William Ligon, Jr.	4	17	1	2013-02-12	2013-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ad16db49-cbae-47be-9b4d-197f607ab6ce	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	40507df4f037134a81c9d56fb6671b2dbb19c67b426a8883bbf6084377ac2d87	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 158 (2013_14) — Temporary Medical Consent Guardianship; Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; change certain signatures

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 29-4-18 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions, requirements, and termination of temporary medical consent guardianship, so as to change certain signatures on a Physician Order for Life-sustaining Treatment; 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 37 1537 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 37 1613S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 158/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Horacena Tate — primary (person)
• Jesse Stone — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)
• William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-12 Senate Hopper
• 2013-02-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-03-07 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-03-07 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-03-11 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-03-12 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-03-14 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-03-22 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-03-22 House Immediately Transmitted to Senate
• 2013-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2013-04-04 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-05-06 Act 218 executive-signature
• 2013-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad16db49-cbae-47be-9b4d-197f607ab6ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).