republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2023-24/hb-872.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Medical professionals; rural assistance; expand service cancelable loan program for health care providers to include dental students	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical professionals for rural assistance, so as to expand the service cancelable loan program for physicians and other health care providers in underserved areas to include dental students; to provide for criteria; to provide for length of loans; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2023_24	HB 872	Georgia HB 872 (2023_24)	bill		enacted	Butch Parrish Deborah Silcox Karen Bennett Lee Hawkins Sharon Cooper	4	17	2	2024-01-08	2024-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/0ba2a6fc-c437-49e1-9697-c0897444162c	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	a4d3411973e61d129113728d5c0889aa34379c408db76fc74eac593f73e7e336	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 872 (2023_24) — Medical professionals; rural assistance; expand service cancelable loan program for health care providers to include dental students

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to medical professionals for rural assistance, so as to expand the service cancelable loan program for physicians and other health care providers in underserved areas to include dental students; to provide for criteria; to provide for length of loans; 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 872/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 33 9549/a (committee substitute) — source
3. LC 54 0347S/hcs (committee substitute) — source
4. LC 54 0347S/hs (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #812 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 47–2 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #494 - 2023-2024 Regular Session — 150–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Butch Parrish — primary (person)
• Deborah Silcox — primary (person)
• Karen Bennett — primary (person)
• Lee Hawkins — primary (person)
• Sharon Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 House Hopper introduction
• 2024-01-09 House First Readers reading-1
• 2024-01-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2024-02-07 House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-16 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2024-02-16 House Passed/Adopted By Substitute passage
• 2024-02-20 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2024-03-08 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-11 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2024-03-21 Senate Tabled
• 2024-03-26 Senate Taken from Table
• 2024-03-26 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2024-03-26 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2024-04-02 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-19 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-19 Act 385 executive-signature
• 2024-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0ba2a6fc-c437-49e1-9697-c0897444162c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).