Fabio
86 lines
4.6 KiB
Markdown
86 lines
4.6 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Georgia 9-1-1 Medical Amnesty Law; enact"
|
||
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 13 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions relative to controlled substances, so as to provide immunities from certain arrests, charges, or prosecutions for persons seeking medical assistance for a drug overdose; to amend Code Section 3-3-23 of the O.C.G.A., relating to furnishing to, purchase of, or possession by persons under 21 years of age of alcoholic beverages; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
|
||
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2013_14"
|
||
identifier: "HB 965"
|
||
citation: "Georgia HB 965 (2013_14)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Bruce Broadrick", "Mary Oliver", "Roger Rutledge", "Sharon Cooper", "Tom Weldon"]
|
||
version_count: 7
|
||
action_count: 18
|
||
vote_count: 1
|
||
first_action: "2014-02-07"
|
||
last_action: "2014-04-24"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3440613f-439a-4969-9abb-b9dd8b7a144b"
|
||
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
|
||
source_hash: "6a037878af2accf26d8a0017e007e5a919746dd641506ebeca7f29b09b42d607"
|
||
vintage: "2026-07-01"
|
||
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
|
||
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
|
||
confidence: "reported"
|
||
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
# Georgia HB 965 (2013_14) — Georgia 9-1-1 Medical Amnesty Law; enact
|
||
|
||
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 13 of Title 16 of the O.C.G.A., relating to general provisions relative to controlled substances, so as to provide immunities from certain arrests, charges, or prosecutions for persons seeking medical assistance for a drug overdose; to amend Code Section 3-3-23 of the O.C.G.A., relating to furnishing to, purchase of, or possession by persons under 21 years of age of alcoholic beverages; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to provide for applicability; 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. **HB 965/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144369.pdf)
|
||
2. **HB 965/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/141366.pdf)
|
||
3. **LC 29 5948S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/140587.pdf)
|
||
4. **LC 33 5495/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/139302.pdf)
|
||
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 1763** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142691.pdf)
|
||
6. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143554.pdf)
|
||
7. **Sen floor amend 2 AM 33 1438** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/143685.pdf)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- PASSAGE — **144–20** (pass) · lower
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
|
||
- Bruce Broadrick — primary (person)
|
||
- Mary Oliver — primary (person)
|
||
- Roger Rutledge — primary (person)
|
||
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
|
||
- Tom Weldon — primary (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2014-02-07** House Hopper
|
||
- **2014-02-10** House First Readers `reading-1`
|
||
- **2014-02-11** House Second Readers `reading-2`
|
||
- **2014-02-19** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2014-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
|
||
- **2014-02-25** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
|
||
- **2014-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2014-03-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2014-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2014-03-13** Senate Tabled
|
||
- **2014-03-13** Senate Taken from Table
|
||
- **2014-03-13** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
|
||
- **2014-03-13** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
|
||
- **2014-03-18** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
|
||
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
|
||
- **2014-04-24** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2014-04-24** Act 616 `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2014-04-24** Effective Date
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3440613f-439a-4969-9abb-b9dd8b7a144b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
|
||
|