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type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Assistance; commissioner of human services waives the first $25,000 of any estate; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to provide that the commissioner of human services waives the first $25,000.00 of any estate; to provide for the submission of an amendment to the state plan; to provide for contingent repeal; 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 370"
citation: "Georgia SB 370 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Hufstetler", "David Shafer", "Frank Ginn", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "John Wilkinson", "Lester Jackson", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e17cb646-e58d-46c5-a54a-ec4c39f08825"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e6bfa46836540cea7fdb071259a3db482900badd5f4f805e2e5d1d4d975c18c5"
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 370 (2017_18) — Medical Assistance; commissioner of human services waives the first $25,000 of any estate; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical assistance generally, so as to provide that the commissioner of human services waives the first $25,000.00 of any estate; to provide for the submission of an amendment to the state plan; to provide for contingent repeal; 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
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- David Shafer — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-30** Senate Hopper
- **2018-01-31** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-08** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2018-02-12** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2018-02-13** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2018-03-12** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2018-03-19** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-03** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-03** Act 355 `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e17cb646-e58d-46c5-a54a-ec4c39f08825`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).