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Bill	Haleigh's Hope Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, acupuncture, physician assistants, cancer and glaucoma treatment, respiratory care, clinical perfusionists, and orthotics and prosthetics practice, so as to change certain provisions relating to the use of marijuana for treatment of cancer and glaucoma; to provide for regulated medicinal use of cannabis and derivatives thereof to treat certain conditions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 1	Georgia HB 1 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Allen Peake Margaret Kaiser Matt Ramsey Micah Gravley Rich Golick Tom McCall	15	18	1	2014-11-17	2015-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/f6e03b0c-4728-45b4-8ec1-e03a53f7b4a5	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	eb02159086ae0b5da83840c5282a05cc643584c9f2bec0f0f9c58fb212f07c35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 1 (2015_16) — Haleigh's Hope Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, acupuncture, physician assistants, cancer and glaucoma treatment, respiratory care, clinical perfusionists, and orthotics and prosthetics practice, so as to change certain provisions relating to the use of marijuana for treatment of cancer and glaucoma; to provide for regulated medicinal use of cannabis and derivatives thereof to treat certain conditions; 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. Floor Amendment AM 29 2358 (committee substitute) — source
2. Floor Amendment AM 29 2360 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1/AP* (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1/CSFA (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 29 6436S/hs (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 37 1839/a (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 37 1839/pf (committee substitute) — source
8. SCSFA to HB 1 (committee substitute) — source
9. Sen ctee sub LC 37 1997S (committee substitute) — source
10. Sen floor amend 1 AM 25 1345 (committee substitute) — source
11. Sen floor amend 2 AM 25 1346 (committee substitute) — source
12. Sen floor amend 3 (committee substitute) — source
13. Sen floor amend 4 AM 37 0276 (committee substitute) — source
14. Sen floor amend 5 AM 37 0277 (committee substitute) — source
15. Sen floor amend 6 AM 25 1347 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 158–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen Peake — primary (person)
• Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
• Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
• Micah Gravley — primary (person)
• Rich Golick — primary (person)
• Tom McCall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-11-17 House Prefiled introduction
• 2015-01-26 House Hopper
• 2015-01-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-01-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-02-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-02-25 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-02-25 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-02-26 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-23 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-24 Senate Transmitted House
• 2015-03-25 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-04-16 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-04-16 Act 20 executive-signature
• 2015-04-16 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6e03b0c-4728-45b4-8ec1-e03a53f7b4a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).