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type: "Bill"
title: "Health; eliminate duplicative state licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories; provisions"
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 eliminate duplicative state licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories; to repeal provisions relating to examination of human specimens and methods for selection of blood donors and collection, storage, and processing of human blood; to eliminate state inspections of clinical laboratories; to amend Code Sections 26-4-172 and 42-1-10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license requirements generally under the \"Nuclear Pharmacy Act\" and preliminary urine screen drug tests for inmates, respectively, so as to provide for conforming changes; 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 93"
citation: "Georgia HB 93 (2021_22)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c874dfe4-b6d8-4c10-a120-47b024b83edd"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "f5664a272a307f3dd10557be953a1441658d9e4d8115eafbc000b121729f6943"
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 93 (2021_22) — Health; eliminate duplicative state licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories; provisions
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, so as to eliminate duplicative state licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories; to repeal provisions relating to examination of human specimens and methods for selection of blood donors and collection, storage, and processing of human blood; to eliminate state inspections of clinical laboratories; to amend Code Sections 26-4-172 and 42-1-10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to license requirements generally under the "Nuclear Pharmacy Act" and preliminary urine screen drug tests for inmates, respectively, so as to provide for conforming changes; 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 93/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/200264.pdf)
2. **LC 33 8509/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/195821.pdf)
3. **LC 33 8610S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197678.pdf)
4. **LC 33 8610S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20212022/197280.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **161–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-14** House Hopper
- **2021-01-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2021-01-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2021-02-10** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2021-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-26** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-10** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2021-03-10** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2021-04-05** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-05** Act 223 `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c874dfe4-b6d8-4c10-a120-47b024b83edd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).