republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-109.md

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Bill	Health; clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to health, so as to clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms; to provide alternate terminology for do not resuscitate orders; to amend other Code sections of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated for purposes of conformity; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 109	Georgia SB 109 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Nan Orrock Renee Unterman	6	16	1	2015-02-12	2015-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/1894943f-080c-49d5-86ef-d10ed4a5c0f4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	7e791b82d83e9c0d9fb89eb3c612453cce6cc9325004885b15885441351a9bdf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 109 (2015_16) — Health; clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to health, so as to clarify the use and effectiveness of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms; to provide alternate terminology for do not resuscitate orders; to amend other Code sections of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated for purposes of conformity; 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. As introduced LC 33 5887 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 6092S (committee substitute) — source
4. Floor amend 1 AM 33 1539 (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 6170S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. Sb 109/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 44–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-12 Senate Hopper
• 2015-02-17 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2015-03-04 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-05 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2015-03-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2015-03-13 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-03-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2015-03-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2015-03-24 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2015-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2015-03-31 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2015-04-02 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2015-04-09 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2015-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2015-05-05 Act 55 executive-signature
• 2015-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1894943f-080c-49d5-86ef-d10ed4a5c0f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).