republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-610.md

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Bill	Department of Community Health; conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to require the Department of Community Health to conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; to provide for input from the public, service providers, and other stakeholders; to provide for proposed rate models and estimated fiscal impact; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 610	Georgia SB 610 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Dean Burke Gloria Butler Kim Jackson Larry Walker, III Mike Dugan Sally Harrell	5	20	1	2022-03-04	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/70b3b394-0b18-4806-8696-c4ffa58ef2bc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2b6643efac45f7d9c0177aae016721d13ce69ebf50a2b4bbafd45df77faa7d4c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 610 (2021_22) — Department of Community Health; conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to require the Department of Community Health to conduct a comprehensive review of provider reimbursement rates for home and community based services covered by the waiver programs; to provide for input from the public, service providers, and other stakeholders; to provide for proposed rate models and estimated fiscal impact; 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 9056 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 33 9131S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 33 9157S/hss (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 610/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Kim Jackson — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Mike Dugan — primary (person)
• Sally Harrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-03-04 Senate Hopper
• 2022-03-08 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-15 Senate Tabled
• 2022-03-15 Senate Taken from Table
• 2022-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-03-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-23 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-25 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2022-03-29 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-04-01 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-09 Act 853 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70b3b394-0b18-4806-8696-c4ffa58ef2bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).