2025-2026 Regular Session

HB1250

Daniel Waters Act; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions concerning the Department of Public Health, so as to require certain hospitals to offer perinatal bereavement care counseling options and any available perinatal bereavement devices; to provide for definitions; to provide for related matters; to provide for contingent effectiveness upon appropriation of funds; to provide for a repealer clause; to provide for a short title; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Introduced in House
Last status date: February 25, 2026
Last status update: House Committee Favorably Reported
Author: Scott Hilton
Co-sponsors: Lee Hawkins Darlene Taylor Katie Dempsey Jesse Petrea Sharon Cooper

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Committee referrals

February 10, 2026 · House

Public and Community Health

Instrument history

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

February 25, 2026
House House Committee Favorably Reported
February 11, 2026
House House Second Readers
February 10, 2026
House House First Readers
February 9, 2026
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2112279
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB1250.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00