republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/hb-918.md

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Bill	Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; provide establishment	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to provide for the establishment of the Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for membership; to provide for the duties and powers of the advisory council; to provide for an annual report; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	HB 918	Georgia HB 918 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Mark Newton Mike Cheokas Ron Stephens Sharon Cooper	5	16	1	2022-01-13	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bc78e1f9-5e69-492d-8bd6-97b35bda471d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0105f4d169e833e20b85f7681dad2b7123efb7648efb8aee171244247aa23a17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 918 (2021_22) — Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; provide establishment

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to provide for the establishment of the Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for membership; to provide for the duties and powers of the advisory council; to provide for an annual report; 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 918/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 8912/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 8990S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 8990S/hs (committee substitute) — source
5. Sen ctee sub LC 33 9155S (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 168–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Newton — primary (person)
• Mike Cheokas — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-13 House Hopper
• 2022-01-14 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-01-24 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-02-10 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-15 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-15 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-16 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-30 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-04-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-04-01 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-04-04 House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Act 750 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc78e1f9-5e69-492d-8bd6-97b35bda471d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).