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type: "Bill"
title: "Elementary and secondary education; influenza vaccine; provide information"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to require local school systems to provide certain information to parents and guardians of students in grades six through 12 on influenza and its vaccine whenever other health information is provided; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "HB 198"
citation: "Georgia HB 198 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katie Dempsey", "Mark Newton", "Pat Gardner", "Rick Jasperse", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-31"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78651efe-0222-48d7-9327-49d02b1d045b"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "fb39fb595ad81d344cb2efed14c293849e971a71fb07a31197c311d2cabc50e1"
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 198 (2017_18) — Elementary and secondary education; influenza vaccine; provide information
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to require local school systems to provide certain information to parents and guardians of students in grades six through 12 on influenza and its vaccine whenever other health information is provided; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1662** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Katie Dempsey — primary (person)
- Mark Newton — primary (person)
- Pat Gardner — primary (person)
- Rick Jasperse — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-31** House Hopper
- **2017-02-01** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-02** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Senate Tabled
- **2017-03-30** Senate Taken from Table
- **2017-03-30** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2017-03-30** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-04-27** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-27** Act 30 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78651efe-0222-48d7-9327-49d02b1d045b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).