republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-649.md

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Bill	"Georgia Lactation Consultant Practice 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, acupuncturists, and others, so as to require licensure of lactation consultants; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for definitions; to provide for an advisory committee; to provide for licensure application and qualifications; to provide for license renewal; to provide for statutory construction; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 649	Georgia HB 649 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Darrel Ealum David Knight Pam Stephenson Sharon Cooper Sheila Jones Valerie Clark	7	16	1	2015-03-23	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/5e1f69e0-32dd-4f54-9558-1e345a77eff2	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	4b7f8095126fd02756db1a3ffac9e8998024fc2d45aaec417044b3bf884653e6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 649 (2015_16) — "Georgia Lactation Consultant Practice 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, acupuncturists, and others, so as to require licensure of lactation consultants; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for definitions; to provide for an advisory committee; to provide for licensure application and qualifications; to provide for license renewal; to provide for statutory construction; 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. Committee Sub LC 33 6581S (committee substitute) — source
2. Floor amend 1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Floor amend 2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 649/AP* (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 5878/a (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 33 6344S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
7. LC 33 6344S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 129–27 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Darrel Ealum — primary (person)
• David Knight — primary (person)
• Pam Stephenson — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
• Sheila Jones — primary (person)
• Valerie Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-03-23 House Hopper
• 2015-03-24 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-25 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-01-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-08 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-03-07 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-08 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-22 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-03-29 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 429 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5e1f69e0-32dd-4f54-9558-1e345a77eff2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).