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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Board for Physician Workforce; change name; board's membership; revise"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 10 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, so as to change the name of such board to the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce; to revise the board's membership; to provide for current members of the board to serve out their terms of office; to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated so as to conform cross-references; 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: "SB 207"
citation: "Georgia SB 207 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Greg Kirk", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ca1436b-0253-446e-9dda-45db1d74b6c8"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "154ccb83b50333797dbd5c4c6b81d5892e790c2711aa6ac60d9278043615e1d3"
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 207 (2019_20) — Georgia Board for Physician Workforce; change name; board's membership; revise
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 10 of Title 49 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, so as to change the name of such board to the Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce; to revise the board's membership; to provide for current members of the board to serve out their terms of office; to amend the Official Code of Georgia Annotated so as to conform cross-references; 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. **As Introduced LC 33 7786** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183014.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183710.pdf)
3. **LC 33 7696S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185132.pdf)
4. **SB 207/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186934.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **520** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-27** Senate Hopper
- **2019-02-27** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2019-03-07** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-21** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-25** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-25** Act 50 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ca1436b-0253-446e-9dda-45db1d74b6c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).