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type: "Bill"
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title: "County and Municipal Hospital Authorities; standard of indigency; proceeds from the sale or lease of a hospital by a hospital authority; revise"
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description: "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."
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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: "SB 395"
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citation: "Georgia SB 395 (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: ["Ben Watson", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Gloria Butler", "John Albers", "Lester Jackson", "Steve Henson"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2020-02-19"
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last_action: "2021-01-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46ef384a-cf86-43e5-8c21-08524b89540b"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "d4069f036d932497b7dc26f72cbf33a517d9aabe2cdd696504cd495a43a141e2"
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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 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
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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.
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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. **As introduced LC 33 8248** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/190171.pdf)
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2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/192100.pdf)
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3. **SB 395/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194288.pdf)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **52–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ben Watson — primary (person)
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- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
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- Dean Burke — primary (person)
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- Ellis Black — primary (person)
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- Gloria Butler — primary (person)
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- John Albers — primary (person)
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- Lester Jackson — primary (person)
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- Steve Henson — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-19** Senate Hopper
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- **2020-02-20** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-27** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-02-28** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-04** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-04** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2020-03-05** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2020-03-09** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2020-06-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-06-19** House Postponed
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- **2020-06-20** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2020-06-20** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2020-06-29** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-07-16** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-07-16** Act 471 `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/46ef384a-cf86-43e5-8c21-08524b89540b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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