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2025-2026 Regular Session

HB219

Professions and businesses; establish a professional health program to provide for monitoring and rehabilitation of impaired healthcare professionals; authorize

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.

Legislative progress

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Senate committee reassignment January 12, 2026 Sent to Governor April 6, 2026 Governor approved May 5, 2026 Became law May 5, 2026

Recorded floor votes

2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.

March 4, 2025 · House

Passage: House Vote #174

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

168 yea–0 nay · 4 not voting · 8 absent

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March 12, 2026 · Senate

Passage: Senate Vote #711

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

46 yea–1 nay · 4 not voting · 4 absent

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Committee referrals

Instrument history

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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.

  1. State Effective Date 2026-07-01
  2. State Act 381
  3. House House Date Signed by Governor
  4. House House Sent to Governor
  5. Senate Senate Passed/Adopted View roll call
  6. Senate Senate Third Read
  7. Senate Senate Committee Favorably Reported
  8. Senate Senate Recommitted
  9. Senate Senate Taken from Table
  10. Senate Senate Tabled
  11. Senate Senate Read Second Time
  12. Senate Senate Committee Favorably Reported
  13. Senate Senate Read and Referred
  14. House House Passed/Adopted View roll call
  15. House House Third Readers
  16. House House Committee Favorably Reported
  17. House House Second Readers
  18. House House First Readers
  19. House House Hopper
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