republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2015-16/sb-230.md

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Bill	'Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act'; enactment	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency management, so as to provide for the enactment of the "Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act"; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2015_16	SB 230	Georgia SB 230 (2015_16)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Renee Unterman	4	15	1	2015-03-20	2016-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/79508665-18eb-41ed-9d02-f1de147dd1e3	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	bfaf766aa3f2d731dfd6208d4288ee64fcf108cda059a3636b7a972ddf9e8b89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 230 (2015_16) — 'Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act'; enactment

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 38 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to emergency management, so as to provide for the enactment of the "Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act"; 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 36 2795 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 37 2104S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 230/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Renee Unterman — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2015-03-20 Senate Hopper
• 2015-03-23 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2016-02-02 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-02-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2016-02-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2016-02-04 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2016-02-08 House First Readers reading-1
• 2016-02-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2016-03-11 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2016-03-22 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2016-03-22 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2016-03-30 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2016-04-26 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2016-04-26 Act 403 executive-signature
• 2016-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79508665-18eb-41ed-9d02-f1de147dd1e3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).