republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-334.md

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Bill	"Helping Firefighters Beat Cancer Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 25-3-23 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum requirements, equipment and clothing, and insurance relative to local fire departments generally, so as to revise qualifications for insurance coverage for firefighters diagnosed with cancer; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 334	Georgia SB 334 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Clint Dixon John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Randy Robertson Shawn Still	3	15	2	2024-01-08	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/93086355-7182-49d7-8f37-a535c1f6292d	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	1276248a36bf29408c01792e4064a0077fe1668f4aee9d36340b1c2ec1e956cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 334 (2023_24) — "Helping Firefighters Beat Cancer Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 25-3-23 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to minimum requirements, equipment and clothing, and insurance relative to local fire departments generally, so as to revise qualifications for insurance coverage for firefighters diagnosed with cancer; to provide for a short title; 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 39 4004 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 334/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #497 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #676 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 164–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-09 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-06 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-02-15 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-16 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-21 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-08 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-08 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-06 Act 563 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93086355-7182-49d7-8f37-a535c1f6292d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).