republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-416.md

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Bill	Consumer Information and Awareness Act; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to professions and businesses, so as to provide for certain identification by health care practitioners to patients with regard to their license; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for definitions; to require that advertisements identify a health care practitioner's license; to require identifiers and signage; to provide for applicability; to provide for violations; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 416	Georgia HB 416 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Carl Rogers Ed Rynders Matt Hatchett Nikki Randall Rusty Kidd Sharon Cooper	4	17	1	2015-02-19	2015-05-12	openstates	ocd-bill/00dd030a-34f9-4102-8ca3-96e0d5badf82	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d0e55b8e85ea0f8bce50d5d8c1243db3ade2000fc6bc0a1ce091a009d0a10235	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 416 (2015_16) — Consumer Information and Awareness Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 1 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to professions and businesses, so as to provide for certain identification by health care practitioners to patients with regard to their license; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for definitions; to require that advertisements identify a health care practitioner's license; to require identifiers and signage; to provide for applicability; to provide for violations; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 416/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 5986/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6083S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6083S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 151–21 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Carl Rogers — primary (person)
• Ed Rynders — primary (person)
• Matt Hatchett — primary (person)
• Nikki Randall — primary (person)
• Rusty Kidd — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-19 House Hopper
• 2015-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-02-23 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-13 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-13 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-25 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-25 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-31 Senate Tabled
• 2015-04-02 Senate Taken from Table
• 2015-04-02 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-04-02 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2015-04-08 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-12 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Act 200 executive-signature
• 2015-05-12 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00dd030a-34f9-4102-8ca3-96e0d5badf82. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).