republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-509.md

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Bill	Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; create; provisions	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health care facilities, so as to implement initiatives to improve quality and delivery of patient centered and family focused palliative care in this state; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to create the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; to establish a state-wide Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 509	Georgia HB 509 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Bill Hitchens Chuck Williams Jan Tankersley Jesse Petrea Ron Stephens	5	16	1	2015-02-26	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/97f976c4-8d6e-4a79-8a77-2c0e8c1c9873	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	21b11d492778a8d9ef2926b6df0d4e9c4a117022233b31d72c08ddf1188c6204	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 509 (2015_16) — Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; create; provisions

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health care facilities, so as to implement initiatives to improve quality and delivery of patient centered and family focused palliative care in this state; to provide for legislative intent; to provide for definitions; to create the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council; to establish a state-wide Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program; 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. HB 509/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 6046/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 6382S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 6382S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 37 2208S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 138–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Hitchens — primary (person)
• Chuck Williams — primary (person)
• Jan Tankersley — primary (person)
• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 House Hopper
• 2015-03-02 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-01-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-10 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-14 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-14 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-16 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-28 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 342 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97f976c4-8d6e-4a79-8a77-2c0e8c1c9873. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).