republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/hb-219.md

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Bill	Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to authorize the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists to establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; to authorize the Georgia Board of Nursing to establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; to provide for funding or gifts in kind; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	HB 219	Georgia HB 219 (2025_26)	bill	FOOD DRUGS AND COSMETICS PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES	enacted	David Clark Ron Stephens Viola Davis	2	18	2	2025-02-03	2026-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/81d1f87d-bdc4-4009-b541-c5128f1d6413	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	2a4b59cf78c234454c28a4a4c7294cf574bedc5f2627d25b08a21dbc2810d4cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia HB 219 (2025_26) — Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to professions and businesses, so as to authorize the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists to establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; to authorize the Georgia Board of Nursing to establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; to provide for funding or gifts in kind; 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 219/AP* (committee substitute) — source
2. LC 57 0201/a (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #711 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 46–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #174 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 168–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David Clark — primary (person)
• Ron Stephens — primary (person)
• Viola Davis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-03 House Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-04 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-02-05 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-02-26 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-04 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-18 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Senate Tabled
• 2026-01-12 Senate Taken from Table
• 2026-01-12 Senate Recommitted referral-committee
• 2026-02-02 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-12 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2026-03-12 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2026-04-06 House Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-05 House Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-05 Act 381 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81d1f87d-bdc4-4009-b541-c5128f1d6413. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).