republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-395.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	County and Municipal Hospital Authorities; standard of indigency; proceeds from the sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; revise	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county and municipal hospital authorities, so as to revise the standard of indigency relating to portioning of proceeds from the sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; to provide for additional methods for the investment of funds by hospital authorities which hold an irrevocable trust wherein the corpus exceeds certain amounts; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2019_20	SB 395	Georgia SB 395 (2019_20)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Ellis Black Gloria Butler John Albers Lester Jackson Steve Henson	3	16	1	2020-02-19	2021-01-01	openstates	ocd-bill/46ef384a-cf86-43e5-8c21-08524b89540b	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	d4069f036d932497b7dc26f72cbf33a517d9aabe2cdd696504cd495a43a141e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 395 (2019_20) — County and Municipal Hospital Authorities; standard of indigency; proceeds from the sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; revise

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 4 of Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to county and municipal hospital authorities, so as to revise the standard of indigency relating to portioning of proceeds from the sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; to provide for additional methods for the investment of funds by hospital authorities which hold an irrevocable trust wherein the corpus exceeds certain amounts; 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 8248 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 395/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 52–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Ellis Black — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• Lester Jackson — primary (person)
• Steve Henson — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-02-19 Senate Hopper
• 2020-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-28 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2020-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-03-05 House First Readers reading-1
• 2020-03-09 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2020-06-17 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-19 House Postponed
• 2020-06-20 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2020-06-20 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2020-06-29 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2020-07-16 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-07-16 Act 471 executive-signature
• 2021-01-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46ef384a-cf86-43e5-8c21-08524b89540b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).