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type: "Bill"
title: "Home Care Patient Protection Act; enact"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 13 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to private home care providers, so as to revise the definition of private home care provider to include contractual arrangements with licensed independent contractors; to revise exempt services; to provide for a short title; 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 183"
citation: "Georgia HB 183 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen Peake", "David Knight", "J. Craig Gordon", "Jesse Petrea", "Katie Dempsey", "Nikki Randall"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-02"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c5db27e-992d-45db-bc34-51386ec8b1a2"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "259e25a8cb104098901b0e8ccc6d5af08f58a979b7d73aa02d1a07c47d29eaa6"
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 183 (2015_16) — Home Care Patient Protection Act; enact
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 13 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to private home care providers, so as to revise the definition of private home care provider to include contractual arrangements with licensed independent contractors; to revise exempt services; 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. **HB 183/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152751.pdf)
2. **LC 36 2701ERS/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149774.pdf)
3. **LC 36 2701ERS/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/149131.pdf)
4. **LC 37 1885/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/146570.pdf)
5. **Sen floor am 2 AM 36 0519** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152608.pdf)
6. **Sen floor amend 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/152594.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1622** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Allen Peake — primary (person)
- David Knight — primary (person)
- J. Craig Gordon — primary (person)
- Jesse Petrea — primary (person)
- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
- Nikki Randall — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-02** House Hopper
- **2015-02-03** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-04** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-02-24** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2015-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-26** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-05** Act 60 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c5db27e-992d-45db-bc34-51386ec8b1a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).