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type: "Bill"
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title: "Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
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legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
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session: "2025_26"
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identifier: "HB 219"
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citation: "Georgia HB 219 (2025_26)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["FOOD", "DRUGS", "AND COSMETICS", "PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David Clark", "Ron Stephens", "Viola Davis"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-02-03"
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last_action: "2026-05-05"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81d1f87d-bdc4-4009-b541-c5128f1d6413"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "2a4b59cf78c234454c28a4a4c7294cf574bedc5f2627d25b08a21dbc2810d4cc"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
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---
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# Georgia HB 219 (2025_26) — Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB 219/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/245878.pdf)
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2. **LC 57 0201/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230918.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Senate Vote #711 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **46–1** (pass) · upper
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- House Vote #174 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **168–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- David Clark — primary (person)
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- Ron Stephens — primary (person)
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- Viola Davis — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-03** House Hopper `introduction`
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- **2025-02-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-04** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-04** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2025-03-06** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-13** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-18** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-02** Senate Tabled
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- **2026-01-12** Senate Taken from Table
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- **2026-01-12** Senate Recommitted `referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-02** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-03-12** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-12** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2026-04-06** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-05-05** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2026-05-05** Act 381 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81d1f87d-bdc4-4009-b541-c5128f1d6413`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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