republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/hb-885.md

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Bill	Health; certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; repeal statute	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county boards of health, so as to repeal a statute relating to the option for certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; to provide for an effective date; to provide for transition to county boards of health; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	HB 885	Georgia HB 885 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Beth Beskin Betty Price Brad Raffensperger Jan Jones Joe Wilkinson Wendell Willard	3	18	1	2016-02-02	2016-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/c633d6dd-2304-4f4e-9823-ae3fc7223567	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	b53cb1578b756ecbd8b989ff43ec83b29daa8996b8bea5b88e1bcef4e70b344b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 885 (2015_16) — Health; certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; repeal statute

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county boards of health, so as to repeal a statute relating to the option for certain counties to create a county board of health and wellness by ordinance; to provide for an effective date; to provide for transition to county boards of health; 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 885/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 6315/a (committee substitute) — source
3. Sen ctee sub LC 33 6577S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 151–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beth Beskin — primary (person)
• Betty Price — primary (person)
• Brad Raffensperger — primary (person)
• Jan Jones — primary (person)
• Joe Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Wendell Willard — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-02 House Hopper
• 2016-02-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-02-16 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-17 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
• 2016-03-22 Senate Tabled
• 2016-03-24 Senate Taken from Table
• 2016-03-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-03-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-03-24 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2016-04-01 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-27 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Act 467 executive-signature
• 2016-04-27 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c633d6dd-2304-4f4e-9823-ae3fc7223567. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).