republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-539.md

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Bill	Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Surveillance; use of any device to photograph or record patients in a health care facility shall be unlawful; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to wiretapping, eavesdropping, surveillance, and related offenses, so as to provide that the use of any device to photograph or record patients in a health care facility shall be unlawful; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 539	Georgia SB 539 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Ben Watson Bill Cowsert Bo Hatchett Chuck Hufstetler Dean Burke Elena Parent Gloria Butler Jeff Mullis John Albers John Kennedy Michelle Au	4	17	1	2022-02-22	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/81bb3a2c-adcd-4712-a858-073e9594a6ca	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	68fc9336f5da194cef61ed56a9addbe0dcdb07d95f77d80383547ca5bd641f6d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 539 (2021_22) — Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Surveillance; use of any device to photograph or record patients in a health care facility shall be unlawful; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 3 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to wiretapping, eavesdropping, surveillance, and related offenses, so as to provide that the use of any device to photograph or record patients in a health care facility shall be unlawful; to provide for exceptions; 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 9011 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 9086S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 539/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 48–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Watson — primary (person)
• Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
• Bo Hatchett — primary (person)
• Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
• Dean Burke — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Gloria Butler — primary (person)
• Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
• John Albers — primary (person)
• John Kennedy — primary (person)
• Michelle Au — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-22 Senate Hopper
• 2022-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2022-03-09 Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2022-03-15 Senate Tabled
• 2022-03-15 Senate Taken from Table
• 2022-03-15 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2022-03-15 Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2022-03-16 House First Readers reading-1
• 2022-03-17 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2022-03-30 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-01 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-04-01 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2022-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-09 Act 846 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81bb3a2c-adcd-4712-a858-073e9594a6ca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).