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| Bill | Labor and industrial relations; workers' compensation benefits; change certain provisions | A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to workers' compensation, so as to change certain provisions related to workers' compensation benefits; to increase the compensation benefits for total disability and temporary partial disability; to increase the total compensation payable to a surviving spouse as a sole dependent at the time of death; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | us/states/ga | Georgia General Assembly | 2021_22 | HB 1409 | Georgia HB 1409 (2021_22) |
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2 | 17 | 1 | 2022-02-22 | 2022-07-01 | openstates | ocd-bill/462f28bd-c816-4163-a9f7-23ef87ef220a | http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl | e398f8db4caef756499f22abc02ee7276a79fd9d647e8646d14253021773422a | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Georgia HB 1409 (2021_22) — Labor and industrial relations; workers' compensation benefits; change certain provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 9 of Title 34 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to workers' compensation, so as to change certain provisions related to workers' compensation benefits; to increase the compensation benefits for total disability and temporary partial disability; to increase the total compensation payable to a surviving spouse as a sole dependent at the time of death; 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 — 158–1 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Bill Werkheiser — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-02-22 House Hopper
- 2022-02-24 House First Readers
reading-1 - 2022-02-28 House Second Readers
reading-2 - 2022-03-03 House Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2022-03-11 House Third Readers
reading-3 - 2022-03-11 House Passed/Adopted
passage - 2022-03-15 Senate Read and Referred
referral-committee - 2022-03-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported
committee-passage-favorable - 2022-03-25 Senate Read Second Time
reading-2 - 2022-04-01 Senate Tabled
- 2022-04-04 Senate Taken from Table
- 2022-04-04 Senate Third Read
reading-3 - 2022-04-04 Senate Passed/Adopted
passage - 2022-04-06 House Sent to Governor
executive-receipt - 2022-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor
executive-signature - 2022-05-02 Act 781
executive-signature - 2022-07-01 Effective Date
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/462f28bd-c816-4163-a9f7-23ef87ef220a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).