republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2021-22/sb-573.md

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Bill	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities;hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to utilize surgical smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures to protect patients and health care workers from the hazards of surgical smoke; require	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation and construction of hospitals and other health care facilities, so as to require hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to utilize surgical smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures to protect patients and health care workers from the hazards of surgical smoke; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2021_22	SB 573	Georgia SB 573 (2021_22)	bill		enacted	Larry Walker, III Matt Brass Randy Robertson	4	17	1	2022-02-28	2022-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ac4b157b-3c0b-4be5-a268-3b977744d538	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2d46041cc8e046947e7f04b7dfaec8d5aaca56794ac7099c64ed59cbebf1cd57	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 573 (2021_22) — Hospitals and Health Care Facilities;hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to utilize surgical smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures to protect patients and health care workers from the hazards of surgical smoke; require

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 7 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation and construction of hospitals and other health care facilities, so as to require hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to utilize surgical smoke evacuation systems during surgical procedures to protect patients and health care workers from the hazards of surgical smoke; to provide for definitions; 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 9055 (committee substitute) — source
2. As passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee sub LC 33 9092S (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 573/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — 51–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
• Matt Brass — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-28 Senate Hopper
• 2022-03-01 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
• 2022-03-25 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-29 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2022-03-29 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 849 executive-signature
• 2022-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac4b157b-3c0b-4be5-a268-3b977744d538. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).