republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-24.md

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Bill	"Hospital Medicaid Financing Program Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to care and protection of indigent and elderly patients, so as to enact the "Hospital Medicaid Financing Program Act"; to authorize the Department of Community Health to assess a provider payment on hospitals for the purpose of obtaining federal financial participation for Medicaid; to provide for definitions; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for a segregated account within the Indigent Care Trust Fund; to provide for the use of funds; to provide for repeal unless reauthorized; to provide for related matters; to provide effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 24	Georgia SB 24 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Charlie Bethel Rick Jeffares William Jackson	13	15	1	2013-01-14	2013-02-13	openstates	ocd-bill/e8da766b-847c-4594-9d59-54da51025933	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e9ffac53402f45df1809cf52530ebdb56c0932ad540e6c65e06bd1d5586b3ec6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 24 (2013_14) — "Hospital Medicaid Financing Program Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to care and protection of indigent and elderly patients, so as to enact the "Hospital Medicaid Financing Program Act"; to authorize the Department of Community Health to assess a provider payment on hospitals for the purpose of obtaining federal financial participation for Medicaid; to provide for definitions; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for a segregated account within the Indigent Care Trust Fund; to provide for the use of funds; to provide for repeal unless reauthorized; to provide for related matters; to provide effective dates; 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. Amendment 3 as amended (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 33-4882-EC (committee substitute) — source
3. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee sub LC 33 4889S (committee substitute) — source
5. Floor amend 1 AM 37 0200 (committee substitute) — source
6. Floor amend 2 AM 33 1263 (committee substitute) — source
7. Floor amend 3 AM 33 1266 (committee substitute) — source
8. Floor amend 3a (committee substitute) — source
9. Floor amend 4 AM 33 1267 (committee substitute) — source
10. Floor amend 5 AM 33 1269 (committee substitute) — source
11. Floor amend 6 AM 21 3844 (committee substitute) — source
12. Floor amend 7 (committee substitute) — source
13. SB 24/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #3 BY THE SEN. FROM THE 42ND AS AMENDED — 46–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
• William Jackson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-14 Senate Hopper
• 2013-01-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2013-01-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-01-16 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2013-01-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2013-01-17 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2013-01-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2013-01-29 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2013-01-30 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2013-02-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2013-02-01 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2013-02-11 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2013-02-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2013-02-13 Act 1 executive-signature
• 2013-02-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8da766b-847c-4594-9d59-54da51025933. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).