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Bill Safer Hospitals Act; enact A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 16 of the O.C.G., relating to assault and battery and related offenses against persons, so as to provide for enhanced penalties for aggravated assault and aggravated battery committed upon emergency health workers and healthcare workers located on a hospital campus; to provide for a definition; to amend Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2023_24 HB 383 Georgia HB 383 (2023_24)
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Farooq Mughal
Matt Reeves
Scott Holcomb
Stacey Evans
Stan Gunter
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Georgia HB 383 (2023_24) — Safer Hospitals Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 16 of the O.C.G., relating to assault and battery and related offenses against persons, so as to provide for enhanced penalties for aggravated assault and aggravated battery committed upon emergency health workers and healthcare workers located on a hospital campus; to provide for a definition; to amend Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date and applicability; 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 383/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 49 1210/a (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 49 1389S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 49 1389S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #293 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 462 (pass) · upper
  • House Vote #185 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 1705 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Deborah Silcox — primary (person)
  • Farooq Mughal — primary (person)
  • Matt Reeves — primary (person)
  • Scott Holcomb — primary (person)
  • Stacey Evans — primary (person)
  • Stan Gunter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-02-14 House Hopper introduction
  • 2023-02-15 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2023-02-16 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2023-03-02 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-06 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2023-03-06 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2023-03-07 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2023-03-16 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-20 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2023-03-23 Senate Tabled
  • 2023-03-23 Senate Taken from Table
  • 2023-03-23 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2023-03-23 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2023-03-30 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-05-02 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-05-02 Act 224 executive-signature
  • 2023-05-02 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e1a3aec6-2ea1-46b8-8db7-d3bfc84e788e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).