republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-58.md

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Bill	"Georgia Transporting Life-Saving Organs and Personnel Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services, so as to provide for the licensing and operation of emergency organ transport vehicles as ambulance services; to provide for the operation of such vehicles on public roadways; to amend Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicles and traffic, so as to exempt emergency organ transport vehicles from those vehicles required to obtain an emergency vehicle permit from the Department of Public Safety; to revise and provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 58	Georgia SB 58 (2025_26)	bill	HEALTH MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC	enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Billy Hickman Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Chuck Payne Drew Echols Frank Ginn Jason Anavitarte John Albers John F. Kennedy Kay Kirkpatrick Lee Anderson Marty Harbin Max Burns Rick Williams Russ Goodman Sam Watson Shawn Still Timothy Bearden	3	15	2	2025-01-29	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3a99972c-9d51-40ea-8161-0963edb4fdf4	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	0d380dbabf816b42552c7d45a227b97455a813a7fe6081c267534adc8174e535	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 58 (2025_26) — "Georgia Transporting Life-Saving Organs and Personnel Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 11 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency medical services, so as to provide for the licensing and operation of emergency organ transport vehicles as ambulance services; to provide for the operation of such vehicles on public roadways; to amend Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicles and traffic, so as to exempt emergency organ transport vehicles from those vehicles required to obtain an emergency vehicle permit from the Department of Public Safety; to revise and provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; 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 introduced LC 39 4531 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 58/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #296 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 161–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #59 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 53–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Billy Hickman — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Chuck Payne — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• Frank Ginn — primary (person)
• Jason Anavitarte — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John F. Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Marty Harbin — primary (person)
• Max Burns — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)
• Sam Watson — primary (person)
• Shawn Still — primary (person)
• Timothy Bearden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-01-30 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-10 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-18 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-02-19 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-20 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-21 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-21 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 83 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a99972c-9d51-40ea-8161-0963edb4fdf4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).