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type: "Bill"
title: "Professions and businesses; national background checks by FBI through Georgia Crime Information Center for licensing to practice as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 33 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding physical therapists, so as to provide for national background checks by the submission of fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the Georgia Crime Information Center for licensing to practice as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "HB 752"
citation: "Georgia HB 752 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Belton", "John Carson", "Josh Bonner", "Karen Bennett", "Mike Glanton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98c4cb48-ce53-44ad-b60d-a86bbede1979"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "5716873868e61b88b765038db28051b1d6a9762ce9769dd6ea0f7bf203ebd160"
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 752 (2019_20) — Professions and businesses; national background checks by FBI through Georgia Crime Information Center for licensing to practice as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 33 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding physical therapists, so as to provide for national background checks by the submission of fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the Georgia Crime Information Center for licensing to practice as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; 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. **HB 752/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/195220.pdf)
2. **LC 41 2146/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187851.pdf)
3. **LC 41 2339S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191526.pdf)
4. **LC 41 2339S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191044.pdf)
5. **Sen floor amend 1 AM 33 1945** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/193519.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1551** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dave Belton — primary (person)
- John Carson — primary (person)
- Josh Bonner — primary (person)
- Karen Bennett — primary (person)
- Mike Glanton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-13** House Hopper
- **2020-01-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-01-15** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-28** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-02-28** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-10** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-06-16** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-06-16** Senate Passed/Adopted As Amended `passage`
- **2020-06-16** Senate Transmitted House
- **2020-06-25** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2020-06-30** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-08-03** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-08-03** Act 548 `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98c4cb48-ce53-44ad-b60d-a86bbede1979`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).