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type: "Bill"
title: "Medical professionals; rural assistance; expand service cancelable loan program for health care providers to include dental students"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2023_24"
identifier: "HB 872"
citation: "Georgia HB 872 (2023_24)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butch Parrish", "Deborah Silcox", "Karen Bennett", "Lee Hawkins", "Sharon Cooper"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ba2a6fc-c437-49e1-9697-c0897444162c"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "a4d3411973e61d129113728d5c0889aa34379c408db76fc74eac593f73e7e336"
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 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](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/229054.pdf)
2. **LC 33 9549/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/220873.pdf)
3. **LC 54 0347S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/224362.pdf)
4. **LC 54 0347S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20232024/223211.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ba2a6fc-c437-49e1-9697-c0897444162c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).