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type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Veterinary Medicine; professional health program for impaired veterinarians; provide"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; 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 75"
citation: "Georgia SB 75 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "John Wilkinson", "Lee Anderson", "Sheikh Rahman", "Tyler Harper", "Zahra Karinshak"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/637ed13a-dc9b-4ca5-b489-aaf4b7c5078c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "e41b1e6e0f7a8d46da00da4e480f763c8f7715f75cb0131cbd94cf884e51c6a5"
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 75 (2019_20) — State Board of Veterinary Medicine; professional health program for impaired veterinarians; provide
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; 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 44 1046** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/180704.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182142.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 44 1092S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/181575.pdf)
4. **LC 44 1255S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/185170.pdf)
5. **SB75/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186746.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **540** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- John Wilkinson — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Sheikh Rahman — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
- Zahra Karinshak — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-07** Senate Hopper
- **2019-02-08** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-19** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-20** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-02-21** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** 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`
- **2019-03-28** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-05** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-10** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-10** Veto V9 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/637ed13a-dc9b-4ca5-b489-aaf4b7c5078c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).