a43f31b272
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
94 lines
5.6 KiB
Markdown
94 lines
5.6 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Haleigh's Hope Act; enact"
|
||
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, acupuncture, physician assistants, cancer and glaucoma treatment, respiratory care, clinical perfusionists, and orthotics and prosthetics practice, so as to change certain provisions relating to the use of marijuana for treatment of cancer and glaucoma; to provide for regulated medicinal use of cannabis and derivatives thereof to treat certain conditions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
|
||
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
|
||
session: "2015_16"
|
||
identifier: "HB 1"
|
||
citation: "Georgia HB 1 (2015_16)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Allen Peake", "Margaret Kaiser", "Matt Ramsey", "Micah Gravley", "Rich Golick", "Tom McCall"]
|
||
version_count: 15
|
||
action_count: 18
|
||
vote_count: 1
|
||
first_action: "2014-11-17"
|
||
last_action: "2015-04-16"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6e03b0c-4728-45b4-8ec1-e03a53f7b4a5"
|
||
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
|
||
source_hash: "eb02159086ae0b5da83840c5282a05cc643584c9f2bec0f0f9c58fb212f07c35"
|
||
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 1 (2015_16) — Haleigh's Hope Act; enact
|
||
|
||
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, acupuncture, physician assistants, cancer and glaucoma treatment, respiratory care, clinical perfusionists, and orthotics and prosthetics practice, so as to change certain provisions relating to the use of marijuana for treatment of cancer and glaucoma; to provide for regulated medicinal use of cannabis and derivatives thereof to treat certain conditions; 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. **Floor Amendment AM 29 2358** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149317.pdf)
|
||
2. **Floor Amendment AM 29 2360** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149316.pdf)
|
||
3. **HB 1/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152355.pdf)
|
||
4. **HB 1/CSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149361.pdf)
|
||
5. **LC 29 6436S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149081.pdf)
|
||
6. **LC 37 1839/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145761.pdf)
|
||
7. **LC 37 1839/pf** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/145148.pdf)
|
||
8. **SCSFA to HB 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152148.pdf)
|
||
9. **Sen ctee sub LC 37 1997S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/151761.pdf)
|
||
10. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 25 1345** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152090.pdf)
|
||
11. **Sen floor amend 2 AM 25 1346** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152089.pdf)
|
||
12. **Sen floor amend 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152116.pdf)
|
||
13. **Sen floor amend 4 AM 37 0276** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152119.pdf)
|
||
14. **Sen floor amend 5 AM 37 0277** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152120.pdf)
|
||
15. **Sen floor amend 6 AM 25 1347** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152131.pdf)
|
||
|
||
## Votes
|
||
|
||
- PASSAGE — **158–2** (pass) · lower
|
||
|
||
## Sponsors
|
||
|
||
- Allen Peake — primary (person)
|
||
- Margaret Kaiser — primary (person)
|
||
- Matt Ramsey — primary (person)
|
||
- Micah Gravley — primary (person)
|
||
- Rich Golick — primary (person)
|
||
- Tom McCall — primary (person)
|
||
|
||
## Timeline
|
||
|
||
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
|
||
|
||
- **2014-11-17** House Prefiled `introduction`
|
||
- **2015-01-26** House Hopper
|
||
- **2015-01-27** House First Readers `reading-1`
|
||
- **2015-01-28** House Second Readers `reading-2`
|
||
- **2015-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2015-02-25** House Third Readers `reading-3`
|
||
- **2015-02-25** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
|
||
- **2015-02-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
|
||
- **2015-03-20** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
|
||
- **2015-03-23** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
|
||
- **2015-03-24** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
|
||
- **2015-03-24** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
|
||
- **2015-03-24** Senate Transmitted House
|
||
- **2015-03-25** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
|
||
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
|
||
- **2015-04-16** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2015-04-16** Act 20 `executive-signature`
|
||
- **2015-04-16** Effective Date
|
||
|
||
## Source
|
||
|
||
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6e03b0c-4728-45b4-8ec1-e03a53f7b4a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
|
||
|