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type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Veterinary Medicine; membership; increase; registered veterinary technician member; authorize"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to increase the membership of the State Board of Veterinary Medicine and authorize a registered veterinary technician member; to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "SB 346"
citation: "Georgia SB 346 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chuck Payne", "Dean Burke", "Ellis Black", "Lee Anderson", "Sally Harrell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-31"
last_action: "2021-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75909fce-86aa-4d8a-874d-4c4e3f660c13"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "794177f5bc45389f210fec90f5d64ed35f9dad2f572e77cbebad5cad4560d4af"
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 346 (2019_20) — State Board of Veterinary Medicine; membership; increase; registered veterinary technician member; authorize
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 50 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine, so as to increase the membership of the State Board of Veterinary Medicine and authorize a registered veterinary technician member; to provide for a professional health program for impaired veterinarians; to provide for definitions; to provide for confidentiality of certain records; to provide for costs; 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. **As introduced LC 44 1387** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/189147.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/191910.pdf)
3. **SB 346/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/194231.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **50–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chuck Payne — primary (person)
- Dean Burke — primary (person)
- Ellis Black — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Sally Harrell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-31** Senate Hopper
- **2020-02-03** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-03-04** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2020-03-05** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2020-06-17** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-19** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2020-06-19** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-07-29** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-29** Act 514 `executive-signature`
- **2021-01-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75909fce-86aa-4d8a-874d-4c4e3f660c13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).