republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-372.md

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Bill	Public Health; provisions; modernize, clarify, and update; certain councils and committees; eliminate	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various titles of the O.C.G.A., so as to modernize, clarify, and update provisions relating to public health; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 of the O.C.G.A., relating to procedure for sentencing and imposition of punishment, so as to revise a provision regarding the requirement of defendants to submit to HIV tests for AIDS transmitting crimes; to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 19 of the O.C.G.A., relating to license and ceremony for marriage generally; to amend Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health, so as to revise provisions regarding the Office of Women's Health; to amend various titles of the O.C.G.A., so as to update terminology relating to sexually transmitted diseases; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 372	Georgia SB 372 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Blake Tillery Butch Miller Dean Burke Kay Kirkpatrick	4	15	1	2020-02-05	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/28dd15b6-171d-4d56-b238-f05a9f7c8a14	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	de56da90ce7c39ffda4ed8074d04a41ec763d4139b7e6a959dd88f50a578e231	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 372 (2019_20) — Public Health; provisions; modernize, clarify, and update; certain councils and committees; eliminate

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various titles of the O.C.G.A., so as to modernize, clarify, and update provisions relating to public health; to amend Article 1 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 of the O.C.G.A., relating to procedure for sentencing and imposition of punishment, so as to revise a provision regarding the requirement of defendants to submit to HIV tests for AIDS transmitting crimes; to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 19 of the O.C.G.A., relating to license and ceremony for marriage generally; to amend Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health, so as to revise provisions regarding the Office of Women's Health; to amend various titles of the O.C.G.A., so as to update terminology relating to sexually transmitted diseases; 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 8201 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 8288S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB372/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Butch Miller — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-05 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-18 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2020-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-16 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-18 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-18 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-25 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-06-29 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Act 388 executive-signature
• 2020-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28dd15b6-171d-4d56-b238-f05a9f7c8a14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).