republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2013-14/sb-273.md

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Bill	Public Health, Dept. of; required to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Public Health, so as to require the Department of Public Health to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for data; to provide for confidentiality; to provide for limited liability; to provide for reports; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2013_14	SB 273	Georgia SB 273 (2013_14)	bill		enacted	Charlie Bethel Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Renee Unterman	4	15	1	2013-03-28	2014-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9cfeb8c9-d32c-4174-b401-c25d82311541	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	9547fce45227453634f17d7e66dfd657d35939a719efc26e1832c62118ac399a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 273 (2013_14) — Public Health, Dept. of; required to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Public Health, so as to require the Department of Public Health to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for data; to provide for confidentiality; to provide for limited liability; to provide for reports; 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 33 5188 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 5373S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 273/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-03-28 Senate Hopper
• 2013-03-28 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2014-01-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-01-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2014-02-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2014-02-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2014-02-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2014-02-06 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2014-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2014-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2014-03-05 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2014-03-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2014-04-16 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2014-04-16 Act 540 executive-signature
• 2014-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cfeb8c9-d32c-4174-b401-c25d82311541. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).