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type: "Bill"
title: "Physicians; visiting sports teams' physicians; provide for licensure exemption; requirements; limitations; agreements with other states"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, physician assistants, and others, so as to provide for licensure exemption for visiting sports teams' physicians; to provide for requirements; to provide for limitations; to provide for agreements with other states; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2017_18"
identifier: "SB 47"
citation: "Georgia SB 47 (2017_18)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Burt Jones", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Dean Burke", "Greg Kirk", "John Albers", "Judson Hill", "Renee Unterman"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-24"
last_action: "2017-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0edb62dd-f64d-4c66-83f9-cb5b6defcc0f"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "ea932c14fd4244210492fba7f95266a2586d38cbe4de0c2e099c4bf202d52812"
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 SB 47 (2017_18) — Physicians; visiting sports teams' physicians; provide for licensure exemption; requirements; limitations; agreements with other states
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to physicians, physician assistants, and others, so as to provide for licensure exemption for visiting sports teams' physicians; to provide for requirements; to provide for limitations; to provide for agreements with other states; 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.
## Votes
- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Burt Jones — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- Judson Hill — primary (person)
- Renee Unterman — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-24** Senate Hopper
- **2017-01-25** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-02-23** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2017-02-24** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2017-03-09** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2017-03-15** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2017-04-03** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-08** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-08** Act 207 `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0edb62dd-f64d-4c66-83f9-cb5b6defcc0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).