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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health, Dept. of; required to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Public Health, so as to require the Department of Public Health to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for data; to provide for confidentiality; to provide for limited liability; to provide for reports; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "SB 273"
citation: "Georgia SB 273 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charlie Bethel", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-03-28"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cfeb8c9-d32c-4174-b401-c25d82311541"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "9547fce45227453634f17d7e66dfd657d35939a719efc26e1832c62118ac399a"
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 SB 273 (2013_14) — Public Health, Dept. of; required to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Department of Public Health, so as to require the Department of Public Health to establish the Maternal Mortality Review Committee to review maternal deaths; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for data; to provide for confidentiality; to provide for limited liability; to provide for reports; 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 33 5188** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/136905.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/138898.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 33 5373S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/138091.pdf)
4. **SB 273/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/142581.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **511** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Charlie Bethel — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-03-28** Senate Hopper
- **2013-03-28** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-01-24** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-01-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-02-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-02-04** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2014-02-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2014-02-06** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-05** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-03-05** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-25** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-16** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-16** Act 540 `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cfeb8c9-d32c-4174-b401-c25d82311541`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).