republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/sb-348.md

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Bill	Notification of Suspicious or Unusual Deaths; individual had not been seen by a physician prior to death; revise the period	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to revise the period for which an individual had not been seen by a physician prior to death to be considered an unattended death; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	SB 348	Georgia SB 348 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Derek Mallow Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Lee Anderson Mike Hodges Rick Williams Shelly Echols	4	15	2	2024-01-10	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/4c9a658c-3066-4f2c-8dde-c2b32bcd9087	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0bb52b0edee673cf70d730e5f33a6671ae1b32982fad3dc2e9b4e1c88bce9ca5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 348 (2023_24) — Notification of Suspicious or Unusual Deaths; individual had not been seen by a physician prior to death; revise the period

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to revise the period for which an individual had not been seen by a physician prior to death to be considered an unattended death; 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. Amend 1 AM 33 2048 (committee substitute) — source
2. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. As introduced LC 33 9582 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 348/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #446 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 52–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #682 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 163–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Derek Mallow — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Shelly Echols — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-24 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-01-30 Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended passage
• 2024-01-31 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-02-01 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-13 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-03-11 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-23 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Act 477 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c9a658c-3066-4f2c-8dde-c2b32bcd9087. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).