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type: "Bill"
title: "Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; provide establishment"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to provide for the establishment of the Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for membership; to provide for the duties and powers of the advisory council; to provide for an annual report; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2021_22"
identifier: "HB 918"
citation: "Georgia HB 918 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Newton", "Mike Cheokas", "Ron Stephens", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc78e1f9-5e69-492d-8bd6-97b35bda471d"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "0105f4d169e833e20b85f7681dad2b7123efb7648efb8aee171244247aa23a17"
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 HB 918 (2021_22) — Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; provide establishment
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to provide for the establishment of the Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for membership; to provide for the duties and powers of the advisory council; to provide for an annual report; 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. **HB 918/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/212223.pdf)
2. **LC 33 8912/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/203402.pdf)
3. **LC 33 8990S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/209445.pdf)
4. **LC 33 8990S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/205933.pdf)
5. **Sen ctee sub LC 33 9155S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/211027.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **168–1** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark Newton — primary (person)
- Mike Cheokas — primary (person)
- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-13** House Hopper
- **2022-01-14** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2022-01-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2022-03-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-30** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-30** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2022-04-01** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2022-04-01** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2022-04-04** House Agreed Senate Amend or Sub
- **2022-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-02** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-02** Act 750 `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc78e1f9-5e69-492d-8bd6-97b35bda471d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).