republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-101.md

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Bill	Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; testing in the newborn screening system; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of hazardous conditions, preventable diseases, and metabolic disorders, so as to require testing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the newborn screening system; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 101	Georgia SB 101 (2025_26)	bill	HEALTH	enacted	Ben Watson Bo Hatchett Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Clint Dixon Drew Echols John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Marty Harbin Max Burns Mike Hodges Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman Sam Watson Shawn Still	4	16	3	2025-02-05	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c6c450e7-bf07-44ad-887c-9b6bacea7150	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	52b99c9ab830ab918b3d814c110bbf983ebcb690635fa71cebcee66359673d4e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 101 (2025_26) — Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; testing in the newborn screening system; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 12 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to control of hazardous conditions, preventable diseases, and metabolic disorders, so as to require testing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the newborn screening system; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 60 0070 (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 60 0167S/hss (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 101/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #489 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 51–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #427 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–2 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #101 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 46–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Clint Dixon — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-12 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-27 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-27 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-02-28 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-03 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-04-02 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-04-04 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-04-04 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2025-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 183 executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6c450e7-bf07-44ad-887c-9b6bacea7150. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).