Georgia House Bill 89

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)
Status: Passed on May 1 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-05-01 - Effective Date 2025-07-01
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2A of Title 31 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the department of public health, so as to require healthcare providers, healthcare facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records; to amend Code Section 37-3-166 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to treatment of clinical records, when release permitted, scope of privileged communications, liability for disclosure, and notice to sheriff of discharge, so as to permit the release of clinical records of a deceased patient to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee; to amend Code Section 45-16-24 of the O.C.G.A., relating to notification of suspicious or unusual deaths, court ordered medical examiner's inquiry, and written report of inquiry, so as to remove the requirement that a medical examiner's inquiry for pregnant female deaths be done through a regional perinatal center; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Public Health, Department of; require healthcare providers, facilities, and pharmacies to provide the Maternal Mortality Review Committee with psychiatric or other clinical records

Rep. Sharon Cooper [R]	Rep. Will Wade [R]	Rep. Matthew Gambill [R]	Rep. Soo Hong [R]
Sen. Bo Hatchett [R]

2025-03-18 - Senate - Passage: Senate Vote #237 (Y: 50 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2025-03-03 - House - Passage: House Vote #126 (Y: 168 N: 7 NV: 2 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-05-01		Effective Date 2025-07-01
2025-05-01		Act 43
2025-05-01	House	House Date Signed by Governor
2025-04-07	House	House Sent to Governor
2025-03-18	Senate	Senate Passed/Adopted
2025-03-18	Senate	Senate Third Read
2025-03-13	Senate	Senate Read Second Time
2025-03-11	Senate	Senate Committee Favorably Reported
2025-03-04	Senate	Senate Read and Referred
2025-03-03	House	House Passed/Adopted By Substitute
2025-03-03	House	House Third Readers
2025-02-26	House	House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
2025-02-20	House	House Withdrawn, Recommitted
2025-01-29	House	House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
2025-01-27	House	House Second Readers
2025-01-17	House	House First Readers
2025-01-16	House	House Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69428
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/230102
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/230597
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/234785
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20252026/236232
Roll Call	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69428#24963
Roll Call	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69428#25226