republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-496.md

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Bill	Death Investigations; medical examiner's inquiry when a pregnant female dies and an inquest; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to death investigations, so as to require a medical examiner's inquiry when a pregnant female dies and an inquest; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 496	Georgia SB 496 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Billy Hickman Blake Tillery Bruce Thompson Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Gloria Butler Kay Kirkpatrick Lindsey Tippins Marty Harbin Michelle Au Mike Dugan Nan Orrock Randy Robertson Sonya Halpern	5	18	1	2022-02-11	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/758f5d91-7bf5-4ab8-9d29-4faf40be4a2d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	550c405cb71109851c57005d776042f7d174b82a9ef89600b926a1f10c947241	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 496 (2021_22) — Death Investigations; medical examiner's inquiry when a pregnant female dies and an inquest; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to death investigations, so as to require a medical examiner's inquiry when a pregnant female dies and an inquest; 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 8995 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Semate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 9035S (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 9082S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 496/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 44–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lindsey Tippins — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Michelle Au — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Nan Orrock — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Sonya Halpern — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-11 Senate Hopper
• 2022-02-14 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-02-24 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-03 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-04 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-25 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2022-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-29 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-04-01 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-02 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-02 Act 799 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/758f5d91-7bf5-4ab8-9d29-4faf40be4a2d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).