republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-75.md

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Bill	State Board of Veterinary Medicine; professional health program for impaired veterinarians; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 75	Georgia SB 75 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Dean Burke Ellis Black John Wilkinson Lee Anderson Sheikh Rahman Tyler Harper Zahra Karinshak	5	15	1	2019-02-07	2019-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/637ed13a-dc9b-4ca5-b489-aaf4b7c5078c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	e41b1e6e0f7a8d46da00da4e480f763c8f7715f75cb0131cbd94cf884e51c6a5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 75 (2019_20) — State Board of Veterinary Medicine; professional health program for impaired veterinarians; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; 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 44 1046 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 44 1092S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 44 1255S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB75/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• John Wilkinson — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
• Tyler Harper — primary (person)
• Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-07 Senate Hopper
• 2019-02-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-19 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2019-02-20 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-02-21 House First Readers reading-1
• 2019-02-22 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2019-03-21 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2019-03-26 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2019-03-28 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2019-04-05 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2019-05-10 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2019-05-10 Veto V9 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/637ed13a-dc9b-4ca5-b489-aaf4b7c5078c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).