republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-273.md

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Bill	Clinical Laboratories; provide certain nondiagnostic laboratories not subject to state licensure as clinical laboratory	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-22-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to clinical laboratories, so as to provide that certain nondiagnostic laboratories are not subject to state licensure as a clinical laboratory; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 273	Georgia SB 273 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Burt Jones Dean Burke JaNice VanNess Rick Jeffares	3	15	1	2016-01-20	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/fb1be8e4-aef7-43da-b2b7-a86fb52cfb7f	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	72c5d29d4b50c1df6bebf15c0b33094a0f185ef7e4bce63064c0466600632b72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 273 (2015_16) — Clinical Laboratories; provide certain nondiagnostic laboratories not subject to state licensure as clinical laboratory

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-22-1 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to clinical laboratories, so as to provide that certain nondiagnostic laboratories are not subject to state licensure as a clinical laboratory; 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 6300 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 273/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 56–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burt Jones — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• JaNice VanNess — primary (person)
• Rick Jeffares — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-20 Senate Hopper
• 2016-01-21 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-01-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-01 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-03 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-03 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-08 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 406 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fb1be8e4-aef7-43da-b2b7-a86fb52cfb7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).