republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-162.md

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Bill	Georgia Composite Medical Board; implement an automated credentialing system for healthcare providers in this state; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to Georgia Composite Medical Board, so as to provide for the board to implement an automated credentialing system for healthcare providers in this state; to provide for requirements; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 162	Georgia SB 162 (2025_26)	bill	PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES	enacted	Ben Watson Blake Tillery Chuck Hufstetler Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III	7	23	3	2025-02-12	2026-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/482bedf8-f921-4ccc-babd-c8ed80bc4e00	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	40af40f1e85a79be06055875ed88a3690c1c0dc72aa1ec4ebca49298b05cb6b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 162 (2025_26) — Georgia Composite Medical Board; implement an automated credentialing system for healthcare providers in this state; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to Georgia Composite Medical Board, so as to provide for the board to implement an automated credentialing system for healthcare providers in this state; to provide for requirements; 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 0744 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 55 0554S (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee sub LC 52 0813S (committee substitute) — source
5. LC 33 9815S/hss (committee substitute) — source
6. LC 60 0272S/hss (committee substitute) — source
7. SB 162 /AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #584 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Vote #195 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #490 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 167–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-13 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-26 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-27 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-28 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-06 Senate Tabled
• 2025-03-06 Senate Taken from Table
• 2025-03-06 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-03-10 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-11 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-13 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2025-04-04 House Withdrawn, Recommitted referral-committee, withdrawal
• 2026-02-04 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-09 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2026-02-09 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2026-02-25 Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
• 2026-04-10 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-05 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-05 Act 408 executive-signature
• 2026-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/482bedf8-f921-4ccc-babd-c8ed80bc4e00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).