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type: "Bill"
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title: "Georgia Podiatry Practice Act; podiatric medicine and surgery; change certain provisions"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 14 and Chapter 35 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional corporations and the \"Georgia Podiatry Practice Act,\" respectively, so as to change certain provisions relating to podiatric medicine and surgery; to provide for Doctors of Podiatric Medicine to join professional corporations with Doctors of Medicine or Doctors of Osteopathy; to revise a definition; to revise provisions relating to eligibility for licensure as a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine; to provide authority for the State Board of Podiatry Examiners to conduct fingerprint based criminal background checks; to provide for procedures, liability, and confidentiality; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2019_20"
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identifier: "HB 932"
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citation: "Georgia HB 932 (2019_20)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Houston Gaines", "Marcus Wiedower", "Mark Newton", "Sharon Cooper", "Todd Jones"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2020-02-18"
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last_action: "2021-01-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/023ce6a6-26e6-4d1d-8f23-209bafae2ea5"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "677bcc4bb6b520fa2a14dc0bd895830ace39b64a82079b7d79bc2640b4665cba"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 932 (2019_20) — Georgia Podiatry Practice Act; podiatric medicine and surgery; change certain provisions
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 14 and Chapter 35 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professional corporations and the "Georgia Podiatry Practice Act," respectively, so as to change certain provisions relating to podiatric medicine and surgery; to provide for Doctors of Podiatric Medicine to join professional corporations with Doctors of Medicine or Doctors of Osteopathy; to revise a definition; to revise provisions relating to eligibility for licensure as a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine; to provide authority for the State Board of Podiatry Examiners to conduct fingerprint based criminal background checks; to provide for procedures, liability, and confidentiality; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 932/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194397.pdf)
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2. **LC 33 8254/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189984.pdf)
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3. **LC 33 8290S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191940.pdf)
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4. **LC 33 8290S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191059.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **167–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Houston Gaines — primary (person)
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- Marcus Wiedower — primary (person)
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- Mark Newton — primary (person)
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- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
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- Todd Jones — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-18** House Hopper
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- **2020-02-19** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-20** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2020-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-17** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-06-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2020-06-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2020-06-20** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2020-06-29** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-07-16** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-07-16** Act 474 `executive-signature`
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- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/023ce6a6-26e6-4d1d-8f23-209bafae2ea5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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