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Bill Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the department of public health, so as to require healthcare providers, healthcare facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records; to amend Code Section 37-3-166 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to treatment of clinical records, when release permitted, scope of privileged communications, liability for disclosure, and notice to sheriff of discharge, so as to permit the release of clinical records of a deceased patient to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee; to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the O.C.G.A., relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to remove the requirement that a medical examiner's inquiry for pregnant female deaths be done through a regional perinatal center; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. us/states/ga Georgia General Assembly 2025_26 HB 89 Georgia HB 89 (2025_26)
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PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
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Matthew Gambill
Sharon Cooper
Soo Hong
Will Wade
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Georgia HB 89 (2025_26) — Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the department of public health, so as to require healthcare providers, healthcare facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records; to amend Code Section 37-3-166 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to treatment of clinical records, when release permitted, scope of privileged communications, liability for disclosure, and notice to sheriff of discharge, so as to permit the release of clinical records of a deceased patient to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee; to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the O.C.G.A., relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to remove the requirement that a medical examiner's inquiry for pregnant female deaths be done through a regional perinatal center; 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. HB 89/AP* (committee substitute) — source
  2. LC 57 0177/a (committee substitute) — source
  3. LC 57 0207S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
  4. LC 57 0207S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Senate Vote #237 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 501 (pass) · upper
  • House Vote #126 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 1687 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
  • Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
  • Soo Hong — primary (person)
  • Will Wade — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-16 House Hopper introduction
  • 2025-01-17 House First Readers reading-1
  • 2025-01-27 House Second Readers reading-2
  • 2025-01-29 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-02-20 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
  • 2025-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-03 House Third Readers reading-3
  • 2025-03-03 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
  • 2025-03-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
  • 2025-03-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-13 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
  • 2025-03-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
  • 2025-03-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
  • 2025-04-07 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-01 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-01 Act 43 executive-signature
  • 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/024b79e4-57c2-4bbd-b6f9-56dbe56f17a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).