2025-2026 Regular Session

HB965

Health; copies of certain patient records to parents or legal guardians of unemancipated minors; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 33 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health records, so as to provide for copies of certain patient records to parents or legal guardians of unemancipated minors; to provide for parent or legal guardian access to such records in a patient portal; to provide a definition; to provide for exceptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary
Last status date: January 16, 2026
Last status update: House Second Readers
Pending committee: Judiciary
Author: Noelle Kahaian
Co-sponsors: Charlice Byrd Houston Gaines Bill Fincher Brent Cox Dale Washburn

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Committee referrals

January 15, 2026 · House

Judiciary

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.

January 16, 2026
House House Second Readers
January 15, 2026
House House First Readers
January 14, 2026
House House Hopper

Source provenance

LegiScan bill ID: 2080483
LegiScan session ID: 2167
Source file: var/states/georgia/source/legiscan/2167-841ad2a0e705/bill/HB965.json
Package observed: 2026-07-17T02:17:01+00:00