republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-130.md

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Bill	Health; medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program; expand	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to expand medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program; to revise definitions; to provide for medical education funding to certain medical organizations facilities; to provide for a physician in certain residency or fellowship programs to be eligible for the service cancelable loan program; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 130	Georgia SB 130 (2025_26)	bill	HEALTH	enacted	Ben Watson Billy Hickman Kay Kirkpatrick Mike Hodges Shawn Still	3	15	2	2025-02-10	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/001d162e-af87-4b4e-9fc8-5aaa0dc713f0	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	f1d0c498a55cef16ce37a9e4a70f16d64000891fa083ea5bbea15c44dcee34e1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 130 (2025_26) — Health; medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program; expand

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to expand medical education funding and the service cancelable loan program; to revise definitions; to provide for medical education funding to certain medical organizations facilities; to provide for a physician in certain residency or fellowship programs to be eligible for the service cancelable loan program; 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 Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 52 0632 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 130/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #369 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 155–7 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #93 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Mike Hodges — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-11 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-20 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-02-27 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-28 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-13 Act 185 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/001d162e-af87-4b4e-9fc8-5aaa0dc713f0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).