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type: "Bill"
title: "Health records; determining annual cost adjustment for providing medical records from Office of Planning and Budget to Department of Community Health; move responsibility"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-33-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to costs of copying and mailing and patient's rights as to records, so as to move responsibility for determining the annual cost adjustment for providing medical records from the Office of Planning and Budget to the Department of Community Health; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2015_16"
identifier: "HB 385"
citation: "Georgia HB 385 (2015_16)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chad Nimmer", "Christian Coomer", "Robert Dickey", "Terry Rogers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2015-02-18"
last_action: "2015-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74ac418a-fdfd-4361-b7e7-3ba2520d26b6"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "41454d7997366fb7a3bc6806d6bbcfbf3ff3ae785c5d6eefe70521c9a8a54e25"
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 385 (2015_16) — Health records; determining annual cost adjustment for providing medical records from Office of Planning and Budget to Department of Community Health; move responsibility
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 31-33-3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to costs of copying and mailing and patient's rights as to records, so as to move responsibility for determining the annual cost adjustment for providing medical records from the Office of Planning and Budget to the Department of Community Health; 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 385/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/153472.pdf)
2. **LC 21 3664/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/148380.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1690** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chad Nimmer — primary (person)
- Christian Coomer — primary (person)
- Robert Dickey — primary (person)
- Terry Rogers — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-18** House Hopper
- **2015-02-18** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2015-02-19** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2015-03-04** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-09** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2015-03-09** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-03-11** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-25** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2015-03-31** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2015-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-06** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-06** Act 156 `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/74ac418a-fdfd-4361-b7e7-3ba2520d26b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).