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Bill Georgia Occupational Therapy Practice Act; enact A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to update and revise various provisions relating to occupational therapists; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2019_20 HB 253 Georgia HB 253 (2019_20)
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John LaHood
Karen Bennett
Karen Mathiak
Lee Hawkins
4 15 1 2019-02-11 2019-07-01 openstates ocd-bill/6202bf53-5c7e-493c-b6e8-a43625181d3f http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl 705de100cf56c2e17a328fbebec7fec402ac77dac76199b575f1d6453b4b3f00 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Georgia HB 253 (2019_20) — Georgia Occupational Therapy Practice Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to professions and businesses, so as to update and revise various provisions relating to occupational therapists; 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 253/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 33 7651/a (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 36 3863S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 36 3863S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 1589 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Bill Werkheiser — primary (person)
  • John LaHood — primary (person)
  • Karen Bennett — primary (person)
  • Karen Mathiak — primary (person)
  • Lee Hawkins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-02-11 House Hopper
  • 2019-02-12 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2019-02-13 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2019-02-27 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-05 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2019-03-05 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2019-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2019-03-18 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2019-03-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2019-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2019-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2019-05-07 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2019-05-07 Act 246 executive-signature
  • 2019-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6202bf53-5c7e-493c-b6e8-a43625181d3f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).