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type: "Bill"
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title: "Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records"
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description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the department of public health, so as to require healthcare providers, healthcare facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records; to amend Code Section 37-3-166 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to treatment of clinical records, when release permitted, scope of privileged communications, liability for disclosure, and notice to sheriff of discharge, so as to permit the release of clinical records of a deceased patient to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee; to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the O.C.G.A., relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to remove the requirement that a medical examiner's inquiry for pregnant female deaths be done through a regional perinatal center; 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 89"
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citation: "Georgia HB 89 (2025_26)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["HEALTH", "MENTAL HEALTH", "PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Matthew Gambill", "Sharon Cooper", "Soo Hong", "Will Wade"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-16"
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last_action: "2025-07-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/024b79e4-57c2-4bbd-b6f9-56dbe56f17a0"
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source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
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source_hash: "d6f5a62f03e803401fe3760f8da72c56e2f943f0c2946a803dd965303ae7ffd0"
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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 89 (2025_26) — Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records
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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the department of public health, so as to require healthcare providers, healthcare facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records; to amend Code Section 37-3-166 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to treatment of clinical records, when release permitted, scope of privileged communications, liability for disclosure, and notice to sheriff of discharge, so as to permit the release of clinical records of a deceased patient to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee; to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the O.C.G.A., relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to remove the requirement that a medical examiner's inquiry for pregnant female deaths be done through a regional perinatal center; 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 89/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/236232.pdf)
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2. **LC 57 0177/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230102.pdf)
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3. **LC 57 0207S/hcs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/234785.pdf)
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4. **LC 57 0207S/hs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20252026/230597.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Senate Vote #237 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **50–1** (pass) · upper
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- House Vote #126 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — **168–7** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Matthew Gambill — primary (person)
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- Sharon Cooper — primary (person)
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- Soo Hong — primary (person)
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- Will Wade — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-16** House Hopper `introduction`
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- **2025-01-17** House First Readers `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
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- **2025-01-29** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-02-20** House Withdrawn, Recommitted `referral-committee, withdrawal`
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- **2025-02-26** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-03** House Third Readers `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-03** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
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- **2025-03-04** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-11** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-13** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
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- **2025-04-07** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-01** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-01** Act 43 `executive-signature`
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- **2025-07-01** Effective Date
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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/024b79e4-57c2-4bbd-b6f9-56dbe56f17a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).
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