republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2017-18/sb-102.md

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Bill	Emergency Medical Services; emergency cardiac care centers; designation; Office of Cardiac Care within Department of Public Health; establishment	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to emergency medical services, so as to provide for the designation of emergency cardiac care centers; to provide for the establishment of the Office of Cardiac Care within the Department of Public Health; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2017_18	SB 102	Georgia SB 102 (2017_18)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Brandon Beach Butch Miller Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Fran Millar Frank Ginn Greg Kirk Jeff Mullis John Kennedy John Wilkinson Judson Hill Lawrence Walker III Lester Jackson Nan Orrock P. K. Martin IV Renee Unterman Steve Gooch Steve Henson	0	15	1	2017-01-31	2017-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4247d692-8fb3-4148-bfdf-c4ce89d860dc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	8e2132fb4924a485b7421e34d4df03c2c03c22b14ad93b15719a339fb67d2979	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 102 (2017_18) — Emergency Medical Services; emergency cardiac care centers; designation; Office of Cardiac Care within Department of Public Health; establishment

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to emergency medical services, so as to provide for the designation of emergency cardiac care centers; to provide for the establishment of the Office of Cardiac Care within the Department of Public Health; to provide for rules and regulations; 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.

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Brandon Beach — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Fran Millar — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Greg Kirk — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Judson Hill — primary (person)
• Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
• Lester Jackson — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)
• Steve Gooch — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-31 Senate Hopper
• 2017-02-01 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2017-02-22 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2017-02-22 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2017-02-23 House First Readers reading-1
• 2017-02-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2017-03-01 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-10 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2017-03-10 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2017-04-03 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-02 Act 105 executive-signature
• 2017-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4247d692-8fb3-4148-bfdf-c4ce89d860dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).