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type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital Medicaid Financing Program; sunset provision; extend"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6C of Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the hospital Medicaid financing program, so as to extend the sunset provision; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Georgia SB 70 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Cowsert", "Butch Miller", "Jack Hill", "Jeff Mullis", "Lawrence Walker III", "P. K. Martin IV", "Rick Jeffares"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63d5c3e8-1c4c-40d3-9bc6-695a9e1506b2"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "69908d13bd759f36bcb788e4e9fdd660c84c32a7fff71ff6ac3fcf2ebea81d6a"
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 70 (2017_18) — Hospital Medicaid Financing Program; sunset provision; extend
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 6C of Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the hospital Medicaid financing program, so as to extend the sunset provision; to provide for an effective date; 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
- ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT #1 BY THE SENATOR FROM THE 29TH — **548** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Jack Hill — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- Lawrence Walker III — primary (person)
- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
- Rick Jeffares — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-25** Senate Hopper
- **2017-01-26** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-02** Senate Transmitted House
- **2017-02-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-02-08** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-10** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-02-10** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2017-02-13** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-02-13** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-02-13** Act 4 `executive-signature`
- **2017-02-13** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63d5c3e8-1c4c-40d3-9bc6-695a9e1506b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).