republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-305.md

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Bill	Health; Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form; require department to provide certain notification prior to modification	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 require the department to provide certain notification prior to modification of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 305	Georgia SB 305 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Renee Unterman	3	15	1	2016-01-28	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/baa83e1f-c109-453c-8e9f-f377205d4669	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	848a3042ba7d58b2d3e962743e6cc19e9d1e8aa850857d7f57bb60edea6e5ff4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 305 (2015_16) — Health; Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form; require department to provide certain notification prior to modification

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 require the department to provide certain notification prior to modification of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form; 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 37 2086 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 305/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 Senate Hopper
• 2016-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-17 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-17 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-02-18 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-19 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-10 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-10 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-05-03 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-05-03 Act 570 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/baa83e1f-c109-453c-8e9f-f377205d4669. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).