republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/hb-374.md

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Bill	Health; administer medications to residents under hospice care pursuant to a physician's written orders; authorize certified medication aides	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-12.2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation and licensing of assisted living communities, legislative intent, definitions, procedures, and requirements for medication aides, so as to authorize certified medication aides to administer medications to residents under hospice care pursuant to a physician's written orders; to amend Code Section 43-26-12, relating to exceptions to the licensure of registered professional nurses, so as to provide that the administration of medication by certified medication aides under specific criteria does not require licensure as a registered professional nurse; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	HB 374	Georgia HB 374 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Jesse Petrea John LaHood Sharon Cooper	4	15	1	2019-02-19	2019-05-11	openstates	ocd-bill/5a3e60e6-9f61-413b-8cf0-269224be958b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a49bd4a2c5bb32e901e29653e22ba84c622b09f453a5ae37caa57ad131bdec43	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 374 (2019_20) — Health; administer medications to residents under hospice care pursuant to a physician's written orders; authorize certified medication aides

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-7-12.2 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation and licensing of assisted living communities, legislative intent, definitions, procedures, and requirements for medication aides, so as to authorize certified medication aides to administer medications to residents under hospice care pursuant to a physician's written orders; to amend Code Section 43-26-12, relating to exceptions to the licensure of registered professional nurses, so as to provide that the administration of medication by certified medication aides under specific criteria does not require licensure as a registered professional nurse; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 374/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 7733ER/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 7784S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 7784S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 165–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
• John LaHood — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 House Hopper
• 2019-02-20 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-21 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-02-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-05 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-14 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2019-04-04 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-11 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-11 Act 320 executive-signature
• 2019-05-11 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a3e60e6-9f61-413b-8cf0-269224be958b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).