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type: "Bill"
title: "Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; delegating physician can enter into a protocol agreement at any one time for nurses; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to delegation of certain medical acts to advanced practice registered nurses, so as to provide an exception to the number of advanced practice registered nurses with which a delegating physician can enter into a protocol agreement at any one time for nurses in certain locations under certain conditions; 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: "SB 242"
citation: "Georgia SB 242 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-22"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1433f3a8-04e7-4e6a-a7d3-cffc2ba3aee7"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "6b467fc7bf685a3c7a33e6ca0c48144900bd47ab5463c4aa263cb0205e356907"
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 SB 242 (2017_18) — Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; delegating physician can enter into a protocol agreement at any one time for nurses; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Code Section 43-34-25 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to delegation of certain medical acts to advanced practice registered nurses, so as to provide an exception to the number of advanced practice registered nurses with which a delegating physician can enter into a protocol agreement at any one time for nurses in certain locations under 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **520** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-22** Senate Hopper
- **2017-02-23** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-06** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-15** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-20** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-07** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-09** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-09** Act 274 `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/1433f3a8-04e7-4e6a-a7d3-cffc2ba3aee7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).