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Bill	"Hope for Georgia Patients Act"; enact	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 52 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to terminally ill patient's right to try investigational drugs, biological products, and devices, so as to expand access to individualized investigational treatments to patients who have severely debilitating or life-threatening illnesses; to provide for definitions; to provide for eligibility criteria; to provide for written informed consent; to allow certain manufacturers or eligible facilities to make available individualized investigational treatments; to provide that coverage is not mandatory; to prohibit the sanctions against a physician's license; to provide exemption to liability for certain charges; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 72	Georgia SB 72 (2025_26)	bill	HEALTH	enacted	Blake Tillery Bo Hatchett Brian Strickland Carden Summers Chuck Hufstetler Colton Moore Drew Echols Greg Dolezal John Albers Kay Kirkpatrick Larry Walker, III Matt Brass Randy Robertson Rick Williams Russ Goodman	4	15	2	2025-02-03	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b0100cc5-9aae-4384-8068-0cbd4c93c3fc	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	3799118c6bd213f5c19e1547f06e16c3a2328009af9489d2381fea793810ecc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 72 (2025_26) — "Hope for Georgia Patients Act"; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 52 of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to terminally ill patient's right to try investigational drugs, biological products, and devices, so as to expand access to individualized investigational treatments to patients who have severely debilitating or life-threatening illnesses; to provide for definitions; to provide for eligibility criteria; to provide for written informed consent; to allow certain manufacturers or eligible facilities to make available individualized investigational treatments; to provide that coverage is not mandatory; to prohibit the sanctions against a physician's license; to provide exemption to liability for certain charges; to provide for related matters; to provide for a short title; 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 0651 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Sub LC 52 0746S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 72/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Vote #318 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 161–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Vote #86 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 56–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Tillery — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Brian Strickland — primary (person)
• Carden Summers — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Colton Moore — primary (person)
• Drew Echols — primary (person)
• Greg Dolezal — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)
• Russ Goodman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-04 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-12 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-02-24 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-02-24 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2025-02-26 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-27 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-27 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-27 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-12 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-12 Act 122 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0100cc5-9aae-4384-8068-0cbd4c93c3fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).